Spanish-Amerian+War

=**__Spanish American War__**=

//"The war of the United States with Spain was very brief.// Its results were many, startling, and of world-wide meaning." --Henry Cabot Lodge

The [|Spanish American War] as a Conflict between Spain and the United States. The war was started in April 1898 and continued to August 1898. The war ended with the signing of the [|Treaty of Paris] on December 10, 1898. As a result Spain lost its control over the remains of its overseas empire. On January 25, the U.S. government, concerned about disorder in Cuba, sent the battleship USS Maine to Havana. On February 15, the ship exploded, killing 266 crewmen. This raised a big outcry in the United States and the call to "Remember the Maine!" The US government used the explosion of the [|U.S.S. Maine] as a way to spark the public into an outrage against Spain. Then by using yellow journalism, the government forced the public into hating Spain. The war ended after quick, decisive naval and military victories for the United States in the Philippines and Cuba. The US gained alot of land by winning this war. They gained [|Cuba] and the [|Philipines]. on February 15. On March 9, Congress passed a law giving fifty million dollars to build up military strength. On March 28, the U.S. Naval Court discovers that a mine blew up the USS Maine.

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//"You may fire when you are ready Gridley."//


 * Commodore George Dewey**, 1 May 1898, at the Battle of Manila Bay during the Spanish-American War. The American squadron entered Manila Bay and took fire from the Spanish fleet, anchored under the guns of Cavite, for half an hour until in the position Dewey wanted. Then Dewey addressed his order to Charles Gridley, captain of Dewey's flagship //[|Olympia.]//
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