This abandonment by the enemy of their projected voyage to Manila concurred with the critical position of the army before Santiago to postpone the project of reinforcing Dewey, who no longer needed battleships so far as his immediate operations were concerned.
"Lessons of the war with Spain and other articles"
Alfred T. Mahan
The determining factor in this proposed movement of the battle fleet as a whole was the necessity, or at least the advantage, of reinforcing Dewey, and of placing two battleships in the Pacific.
"Lessons of the war with Spain and other articles"
Alfred T. Mahan
Fremont made quite a show of reinforcing Cairo, sending a most imposing fleet of steamboats to carry the 4,000 troops sent thither.
"The Struggle for Missouri"
John McElroy