Your TR Source
Rear Admiral Evans orders Commander Gherardi to prepare his vessel to sail, sending him to Kingston, Jamaica, and thence to Guantanamo Bay. Evans instructs Gherardi to gather any sort of information available. The orders are likely related to disaster relief after an earthquake in Kingston.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-01-17
Rear Admiral C. H. Davis writes to Robley D. Evans, Commander in Chief of the U.S. Atlantic Fleet, regarding the situation in Jamaica. Much of Kingston has been damaged by the earthquake and ensuing fire, and is a scene of total confusion, although shipping has not been disturbed. The governor, James Alexander Swettenham, seems to have the situation under control, and has declined assistance from Davis’s men. Davis has respected this, but believes that Swettenham has overestimated the security of the situation, especially away from the main city, and feels that the Missouri should remain until the situation is clearer.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-01-17
Admiral Chester has read Ira Harris’s account of the events surrounding the recovery of the ship Infanta Maria Teresa, and says that his recollections are in accord with the account. Chester wrote the orders under which Harris acted during the passage from Guantanamo and reiterates that Harris was not responsible for abandoning the ship.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1909-09-24
This memorandum details the number of marines that could be assembled to send to Cuba, and how many would remain at various ports. It also lists the number of marines serving on board ships currently in North Atlantic waters.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1906-09-15
Tweed Roosevelt recounts the Battle of Cuzco Well during the Spanish-American War in Cuba. A combined Navy and Marine Corps force captured the water supply that supplied the Spanish garrison at Guantanamo Bay, one of the finest natural harbors in the Caribbean. Roosevelt believes that the successful seizure of the well allowed American forces to hold and use Guantanamo for naval operations that were crucial to the prosecution of the war. Roosevelt asserts that the Battle of Cuzco Well was instrumental in maintaining the existence of the Marine Corps whose usefulness had been called into question at the time of the conflict. Roosevelt relates some of the earlier history of the area, describing battles between British and Spanish forces during the War of Jenkins’ Ear in the mid nineteenth century.
Three photographs, two illustrations, and a map supplement the essay. A text box with the mission statement of the Theodore Roosevelt Association (TRA) appears at the end of the essay.
Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal
2013