17th.—Surrender of Santiago. 25th.—General Miles lands with his expedition in Porto Rico. "A" Battery changes station from Nahant to Fort Pickering. 26th.—Spain asks terms of peace. 29th.—General Merritt's expedition reaches Manila. 31st.—United States forces at Manila repulse Spanish attack. AUGUST. 12th.—Peace protocol signed; hostilities suspended. 27th.—"B" Battery changes station from Fort Constitution to Fort Pickering. SEPTEMBER. 19th.—Regiment withdrawn from coast-works and assembled in camp at South Framingham. OCTOBER. 4th.—General Gillespie, commanding Department of the East, relieved by General Shafter. 5th.—Regiment breaks camp at Framingham, takes transportation for Boston, marches in review before Governor Wolcott, and is furloughed for thirty days. NOVEMBER. 4th.—Batteries report at home stations from furlough. 14th.—Regiment mustered out of service of United States by Lieut.-Col. E. M. Weaver, U.S.V., and Lieut. J. P. Hains, U.S.A. DECEMBER. 10th.—Treaty of peace signed by Commissioners at Paris. APRIL, 1899. 11th.—Proclamation by President McKinley of ratification of treaty officially terminates the war. TRANSCRIBER'S NOTES 1. Silently corrected simple spelling, grammar, and typographical errors. 2. Retained anachronistic and non-standard spellings as printed. 3. Enclosed italics font in _underscores_. 4. Enclosed bold font in =equals=. End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of The First regiment Massachusetts heavy artillery, United States volunteers, in the Spanish-American War of 1898 by James A. Frye