The Spanish American War (April 1898 – August 1898) began as a direct result of an incident that occurred in Havana harbor. On February 15, 1898, an explosion occurred on the USSMainethat caused the deaths of over 250 American sailors. Even though later investigations have shown that the e...
Without these events the Spanish American war could have been completely changed. Due to the riots that were going on in Havana, Mckinely sent the battleship Maine to protect American lives and property. Soon after it was anchored in the harbor, it exploded, resulting in the deaths of 260 ...
The Spanish-American War had its origins in the rebellion against Spanish rule that began in Cuba in 1895. The repressive measures that Spain took to suppress the guerrilla war, such as herding Cuba’s rural population into disease-ridden garrison towns, were graphically portrayed in U.S. newsp...
The number of deaths during the war is estimated to be about 500,000. About 100,000 of those deaths were Spanish people who were killed in bomb raids. The War was used by Germany as testing grounds for new military tactics, which were later used in World War II. One unfortunate city ...
Posted in1920s,1930s,1940s,Births Deaths Marriages,City of Wilson,Military,Wilson Countyand taggedgravestone,Lane Street Project,Odd Fellows cemetery,Spanish-American War,World War IonMarch 27, 2021.7 Comments Soldier kills soldier. In November 1898, theThird North Carolina Infantrymoved from Camp Po...
Causing the deaths of some half a million people and installing in power an oppressive regime which continued to claim Spanish lives, the war provides an obvious caesura in Spanish history. The war sponsored an outburst of artistic creativity which in turn, over a period of more than sixty ...
The civil war, in effect, had wiped out a generation’s worth of Spanish economic development.In terms of the human cost of the war, most estimates put a figure of between 500,000 and a million total deaths. Deaths on the front have been estimated by historian Hugh Thomas to be 200,...
Spanish-American WarThe Spanish-American War was an armed conflict that took place for four months in 1898. The two nations involved were the United States of America and Spain with the former winning this short war. The main disagreement between these t...
In 1884, overcome by grief by the deaths of both his mother and his wife on the same day, he left politics to spend two years on his cattle ranch in the badlands of the Dakota Territory, where he became increasingly concerned about environmental damage to the West and its wildlife. ...
Meanwhile, war had broken out between Spain and the United States (the Spanish-American War). After the U.S. naval victory in the Battle of Manila Bay in May 1898, Aguinaldo and his entourage returned to the Philippines with the help of Adm. George Dewey. Confident of U.S. support, Ag...