By half-past eleven the batteries of Cavite were silenced, the Spanish fleet was destroyed, and the victorious Americans broke into ringing cheers.

The battle of Manila, one of the most remarkable in naval annals, was won and Commodore Dewey took rank among the greatest of all the heroes of the sea.
What a marvellous record! Of the Spaniards, the dead and wounded numbered nearly a thousand, while not a single life had been lost by the American squadron.

Several were wounded, but none seriously.

No such victory between ironclads has thus far taken place in the history of the world.

In the face of mines, torpedoes and shore batteries, Commodore Dewey had won an overwhelming and crushing victory.