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His views, advocating the importance of a strong Navy and a worldwide network of coaling stations to protect trading routes, held great influence on military thought in both the US and Europe around the time of the Spanish-American War (1898).
The Spanish American Wars of Independence were a series of revolutionary conflicts from 1808 to 1826 that reshaped Latin America, leading to the fall of Spanish colonial rule. Inspired by Enlightenment ideals and driven by leaders like Simón Bolívar and José de San Martín, these wars sought freedom, unity, and self-governance.
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The war originated in the Cuban struggle for independence from Spain, which began in February 1895. Spain’s brutally repressive measures to halt the rebellion were graphically portrayed for the U.S. public by several sensational newspapers engaging in yellow journalism, and American sympathy for the Cuban rebels rose. The growing popular demand for...
Spain announced an armistice on April 9 and speeded up its new program to grant Cuba limited powers of self-government. But the U.S. Congress soon afterward issued resolutions that declared Cuba’s right to independence, demanded the withdrawal of Spain’s armed forces from the island, and authorized the use of force by President William McKinleyto s...
The ensuing war was pathetically one-sided, since Spain had readied neither its army nor its navy for a distant war with the formidable power of the United States. In the early morning hours of May 1, 1898, Commodore George Dewey led a U.S. naval squadron into Manila Bay in the Philippines. He destroyed the anchored Spanish fleet in two hours befor...
The Treaty of Paris ending the Spanish American War was signed on December 10, 1898. In it, Spain renounced all claim to Cuba, ceded Guam and Puerto Ricoto the United States and transferred sovereignty over the Philippines to the United States for $20 million. Philippine insurgents who had fought against Spanish rule soon turned their guns against ...
The Spanish American War was an important turning point in the history of both antagonists. Spain’s defeat decisively turned the nation’s attention away from its overseas colonial adventures and inward upon its domestic needs, a process that led to both a cultural and a literary renaissance and two decades of much-needed economic development in Spa...
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THE SPANISH-AMERICAN WAR: A RE-EVALUATION OF ITS CAUSES NANCY LENORE O'CONNOR central themes characterize the work of American historians who review the causes of the Spanish-American War. The first of these emphasizes the role of abstract forces in American culture, and concludes that intellectual and
Feb 22, 1998 · Dewey’s victory at Manila Bay took all of a morning. Admiral Cervera, the Spanish commander at the naval battle at Santiago de Cuba, the only real engagement of the Cuban campaign, was totally ...
Oct 16, 2023 · The Spanish-American War (April–August 1898) was fought between the United States and Spain, primarily on the island of Cuba. American forces were able to capture the port city of Santiago, defeating Spanish land and sea forces.
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The Spanish-American War was a medical disaster for American and Spanish forces. While combat casualties were low, disease took a devastating toll on American troops. The central medical crisis of the war was the typhoid fever epidemic that ravaged military camps.
