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He was captain general of the Canary Islands (1878-83), of the Balearic Islands (1883), and of the Philippians (1888), where he helped suppress native uprisings. Eight years later he was sent to Cuba (1896), also to quell insurgency.
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Cuban revolutionaries intercepted the letter from the mail and released it to the Hearst press, which published it on February 9, 1898, in New York Journal. De Lome’s unflattering remarks about McKinley helped fuel this country’s aggressive, warlike foreign policy.
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U.S.S. Maine was a United States Navy ship that sank in the Havana Harbor in February 1898, contributing to the outbreak of the Spanish-American War in April. American newspaper, engaging in yellow journalism to boost circulation, claimed that the Spanish were responsible for the ship’s destruction. The construction stated on October 17, 1888 and it was launched on November 18, 1889.
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Obedient to that percept of the Constitution which commands the President to given from time to the Congress information of the states of the Union and to recommend to their consideration such as measures as he shall judge necessary and expedient, it becomes my duty now to address your body with regard to the grave crisis that has arisen in the relations of the United States to Spain by reason of the warfare that for more than three years in the neighboring island of Cuba.
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The Teller Amendment was an amendment to a joint resolution of the United States Congress, enacted on April 20, 1898, in reply to President William McKinley’s War Message. It placed a condition on the United States military’s presence in Cuba.
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On 25 April 1898, the United States Congress declared war upon Spain. The ensuing Spanish-American War resulted in a decisive victory for the United States, and arguably served as a transitional period for both nations. Spain saw its days of empire fade, as the United States saw the prospect of overseas empire emerge.
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The Battle of Manila Bay, also known as the Battle of Cavite, took place on 1 May 1898, during the Spanish-American War. The American Asiatic Squadron under Commodore George Dewey engaged and destroyed the Spanish Pacific Squadron Contraalmirante Patricio Montojo.
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The Battle of Guantanamo Bay was fought from June 6 to June 10 in 1898, during the Spanish-American War, when American and Cuba forces seized strategically and commercially important harbor of Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
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The Battle of Juan Hill, also known as the Battle for the San Juan Heights, was a major battle of the Spanish-American War fought between an American force under the command of William Rufus Shafter and Joesph Wheeler against a Spanish force led by Arsenio Linares y Pombo. The result of the battle of American victory.
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The Treaty of Paris of 1898 was a treaty signed by Spain and the United States on December 10, 1898, that ended the Spanish-American war. Under it, Spain relinquished all claim of sovereignty over and title to Cuba and also ceded Puerto Rico, Guam, and the Philippines to the United States.
