Transport CITY OF PARA
This is a view of the transport CITY
OF PARA, chartered from the Pacific Mail Steamship Company. She was
used as a transport on the Pacific, taking part in the third expedition
to the Philippines. She carried the 13th Minnesota Volunteer
Infantry, which was part of Gen. of Arthur MacArthur's (father of Douglas
MacArthur) force of 4,847 troops, the seven thousand miles to Manila. General
Merritt, who would command all of the U.S. troops in the Philippines accompanied
this expedition aboard the NEWPORT. The expedition of eight ships departed
San Francisco, CA between June 25 and 29, 1898, with the CITY OF PARA departing
on the 26th. This was her sole trip for the Navy.
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