The war itself was brief due to the inferiority of the Spanish forces. On May 1, 1898, the Spanish fleet in Manila Bay in the Philippines was destroyed by the U.S. Navy under the command of Commodore George Dewey. On July 3, U.S. troops began a battle for the city of Santiago, ...
1781, adopting (1787) a new constitution that went into effect after 1789. The nation soon began to expand westward. Growing tensions over the issue of black slavery divided the country along geographic lines, sparking the secession of the South and the Civil War (1861-1865). The remainder ...
249-50. See also John Fabian Witt, Lincoln's Code: The Laws of War in American History (New York: Free Press, 2012), p. 69.Witt, John Fabian. 2012. Lincoln's code: The laws of war in American history. New York: Free Press....
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