Spanish-American War n. A war between Spain and the United States in 1898, as a result of which Spain ceded Puerto Rico, the Philippine Islands, and Guam to the United States and abandoned all claim to Cuba, which became independent in 1902. ...
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...
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This is considered excessive by Antony Beevor; however, it was much less than the half a million claimed during the war.[226] The deaths would form the prevailing outside opinion of the Republic up until the bombing of Guernica.[226] ...
It is believed that this caused the deaths of around 25,000 people. All told, about 3.3 per cent of the Spanish population died during the war with another 7.5 per cent being injured. This book attempts to capture the tragic nature of these events. Price: £3.97 - $6.23 - American ...
This pandemic, caused by an H1N1 strain, ravaged much of the world and caused up to 40 to 50 million deaths, with most of these casualties occurring in the fall of 1918.11 It is believed that more than half of the world's population became infected. World War I led to poor sanitary ...
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 ...
Summary The 1918 influenza pandemic caused 40 million deaths, and so dwarfed in mortality and morbidity the preceding pandemic of 1889 and the 1957 and 196... JS Oxford,A Sefton,R Jackson,... - 《Lancet Infectious Diseases》 被引量: 173发表: 2002年 World War I may have allowed the emerg...
“The deaths of these Guale martyrs brought to seventeen the number of priests and lay brothers who had given their lives to the cause of their faith in Florida” (Gannon 42). Luis Gerónimo deOrérecounted the uprising inMartyrs of Florida (ca. 1619). ...
“American imperialism in 1898 was not a sudden abandonment of anti-colonial tradition but was a logical extension of commercial expansion, something the US had been doing throughout its history” (SparkNotes: The Spanish American War, 1898-1901,: Effects of the Treaty). President McKinley was ...