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A considerable force of Spanish regulars and auxiliaries, encamped on the high ridge overlooking Hormigueros, struck Schwan's Brigade on August 10, hoping to turn it back. Initially, the attack was successful, pinning the 5th cavalry in place and preventing the 19th infantry from reinforcing American positions. August 10 is the 222nd day of the year (223rd in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar. ...

The Spanish lacked artillery support, however, and could not answer Shwan's gatling guns and large-caliber cannons. As Schwan's Brigade pressed forward, surging along the ridge's flank, Spanish numerical inferiority began to tell. Outgunned, Colonel Julio Soto Villanueva ceded the heights to the enemy and withdrew his men east to Lares. A 1865 Gatling gun. ...

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