Keywords: Telegram, in code, from Theodore Roosevelt to Admiral Dewey - NARA - 300262.jpg Scope and content This telegram in code from Assistance Secretary of Navy Roosevelt to Admiral Dewey Commander Pacific Squadron was sent without the knowledge of Secretary of Navy Long The telegram authorized Dewey to engage the Spanish fleet General notes 300262 Local identifier Department of the Navy Office of the Chief of Naval Operations Office of Naval Records and Library 07/01/1919 - 09/1947 Archives I Reference Section Textual Archives Services Division NWCT1R National Archives Building 7th and Pennsylvania Avenue NW Washington DC 20408 date 1898 02 26 - 1898 02 26 Record group Record Group 45 Naval Records Collection of the Office of Naval Records and Library 1691 - 1945 Record group ARC 374 Area Files compiled ca 1924 - ca 1946 documenting the period 1648 - 1927 Series ARC 300258 File unit February 1898 02/1898 - 02/1898 File unit ARC 300259 Variant control numbers NAIL Control Number NWCTB-45-VIIAREAFILE-FEB1898-26FEB1898<br /> NAIL Control Number NWDT1-45-VII-AREAFILE-A10-FEB1898-26FEB1898<br /> Other Identifier 06132<br /> This is the NARA internal exhibit tracking number Other versions <gallery> File Telegram _in_code _from_Theodore_Roosevelt_to_Admiral_Dewey_-_NARA_-_300262 tif tif File Telegram _in_code _from_Theodore_Roosevelt_to_Admiral_Dewey_-_NARA_-_300262 jpg jpg </gallery> NARA-cooperation PD-USGov Theodore Roosevelt Spanish-American War Telegrams Codes Documents of the United States George Dewey Ciphertexts |