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General Veleriano Weyler was given the duty to hopefully repress the Liberation army and to restore political order in Cuba. He was very determined to do his duty right and quick to address the problems that plagued the Spanish Army.
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Cuban revolutionaries had intercepted the letter from the mail and they released it to the Hearst press. De Lôme's unflattering remarks about McKinley had helped fuel the country's aggressive, warlike foreign policy.
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On February 15,1898, the United States battle ship Maine was suddenly blown up, apparently by a mine, in an explosion which took out its bottom and caused it to sink, killing 260 men and officers on board.
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President McKinley asked Congress to declare war on Spain.
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An amendment to a joint resolution of the United states congress. It was on April 20,1898 to 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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The Spanish–American War ended in a victory for the United States, and it arguably served as a transitional period for both the nations. Spain saw its days of empire fade, as the United States saw the prospect of overseas empire emerge.
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Also known as the Battle of Cavite, the American Asiatic Squadron under Commodore George Dewey had engaged and destroyed the Spanish Pacific Squadron under Contraalmirante Patricio Montojo.
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This was fought from June 6 to June 10 in 1898, during the Spanish-American War, when American and Cuban forces seized the strategically and commercially important harbor of Guantanamo Bay.
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The most significant U.S land victory, and one of the final battles, of the Spanish American war.
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A peace agreement between Spain and the United States that ended the Spanish American war. With this treaty, Cuba gained its independence, the United states got possession over the Philippines, Puerto Rico, and Guam.
