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Hearst publishes Dupuy du Lome's letter insulting McKinley. -
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Sinking of the USS Maine -
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Assistant Secretary of the Navy Theodore Roosevelt cables Commodore Dewey with plan: attack the Philippines if war with Spain breaks out -
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McKinley approves war with Spain -
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Spain declares war on the US -
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US declares war on Spain -
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Battle of Manila Bay (Philippines) -
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Battle of Santiago Spain's Caribbean fleet destroyed. -
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City of Santiago surrenders to General William Shafter -
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Philippines declares itself an independent republic Led by Emilio Aguinaldo, the self-declared Filipino government fights a guerilla war against the US that lasts longer than the Spanish-American War itself.