Some fourteen heavy Spanish gunboats added enormously to the strength of the French position.

Shortly after the firing began, a Spanish gunboat was seen steaming out past the fort.

Fourteen Spanish gunboats came out to cut her off.

All this while the Spanish gunboat had been firing away with all her might and main.

The Spanish gunboats had annoyed us, and he resolved to attack them with the boats at night.

He had chosen the name of a Spanish gunboat he knew to be at sea; and the ruse worked.

Some of our smaller vessels blockading Cardenas were bold enough to go into the harbor to fight some Spanish gunboats.

Perhaps ten minutes after that the blockading squadron sighted a Spanish gunboat coming toward them with a flag of truce.

There is a Spanish gunboat-thesame one we had the little mix-upwith coming down, I think-lying just off the inlet.

The Spanish gunboat had done a risky thing, running out as it had, and her officers were anxious to get back.

About 9 o'clock I saw smoke off at sea, and soon I made out a small Spanish gunboat coming rapidly up.

His most extraordinary feat, however, was the capture of some Spanish gunboats on the River Apure by means of his Llanero cavalry.

As they neared the Spanish side, carrying the American flag, a Spanish gunboat put out and overhauled them, under the impression they were tobacco smugglers.

But Ignacio's lie upon that one small point (of what the Spanish gunboat had done) was enough to make him liable to death.

It was about half an hour later, perhaps even less, that that Spanish gunboat weighed her anchor and stole silently out to the open sea.

"No, but a Spanish gunboat would mix it up with us very quickly if she saw us first."