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This comes from the book: Great Epochs in American History, 1912 by Funk & Wagnalls. The incident recounted here was found in Volumn 10 page 154.

This incident took place during the Battle of Santiago, 1898:

"The Spaniards had four hundred killed. The charred remains found upon their burning ships told too plainly how dreadfully they had suffered. The Americans lost but one man. George H. Ellis, a yeoman, assisting on the bridge of the Brooklyn, was asked by Captain Cook to give him the distance to the Vizcaya. He stept into the open, took the observation, answered, "Twenty-two hundred yards, sir," and fell at the captain's feet, for a shell had taken off his head."

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