Santiago
[,sænti:'eiɡəu]
Definition
(noun.) a naval battle in the Spanish-American War (1898); the United States fleet bottled up the Spanish ships in the harbor of Santiago de Cuba and destroyed them when they tried to escape.
Editor: Rosalie--From WordNet
Examples
- One battery, the siege guns and all the convalescent troops were sent on by water to Brazos Santiago, at the mouth of the Rio Grande. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Isn't it true, Santiago, that the last dynamiter, he of the train, was a little rare? Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- As they had left him, Pilar had said to him, Well, Santiago? Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- He had, however, a few more troops at Point Isabel or Brazos Santiago. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
Edited by Helen