Timeline of the Spanish-Anerican War
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1868 - 1878
1878 Gen Martinez Campos sent to Cuba, ends war with promises of reform and ammesty |
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1869-77 Ulysses S. Grant
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1864-70 War of the Triple Alliance
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1877-81 Rutherford B. Hayes
1881 James Abram Garfield 1881-85 Chester A. Arthur
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1879 - 1880 the Little War |
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1879-83 War of the Pacific |
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1880-81 First Boer War |
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1885-89 Grover Cleveland
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Gen Weyler sent as captain-general, surpesses Mindinao uprising |
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American, British and German dispute over Samoa almost leads to war |
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1889-93 Benjamin Harrison |
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1893-97 Grover Cleveland
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War of '95
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1896-97 Prime Minister
Aug 8, premier Canovas Sagasta becomes Prime Minster |
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Feb 10 Gen Weyler arrives in Cuba' replaces Campos . reconcentration camps started |
Dec 30 José Rizal |
1896-1902
Spanish driven from Cavite Province |
1896 Olympics |
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Aug 16 Hearst story on
Dec 11 USS Maine orderd to Key West |
March 27 Emilio Aguinaldo elected president
Dec 14 Spain pledges to give Philippines self rule if Aguinaldo exiled. Aguinaldo goes to Hong Kong |
Tsingtao (Qingdao )ceded to Germany
Queen Victoria Diamond Jubilee |
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1898
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Time 1898 |
Cuba |
Philippines |
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Unites States |
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Jan |
Jan 13, Loyalist riots in Havana, Maine ordered to Cuba |
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Feb |
Feb 15 Maine sinks in Havana |
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March |
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March 6 McKinley asks Congress for $50,000,000 for defense
March 17
March 28 Navy finds Maine sunk by mine |
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April |
April 1 Cervera's squadron starts massing in the Cape Verde Islands
April 22, Navy sails to blockade Cuba
April 29 Cervera's squadron departs for San Juan |
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April 11 McKinley asks Congress to send troops to Cuba
April 19, Congress passes Joint Resolution demands Cuban independce from Spain
April 20, McKinley signs resolution, state of war with Spain
April 23, Spain declares war on America, McKinley issues call for 125,000 volunteers
Theodore Roosevelt resigns as Ass Sec of Navy, forms the Rough Riders |
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May |
May 10 ,Cervera's squadron at Martinique , Terror lost
May 12, Sampson bombards San Juan
May 14 Cervera's squadron at Curacao |
May 1 Battle of Manila Bay
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May 16, Bermejo removed as Minister of Marine. New Minister is Captain Ramon Aunon y Villalon |
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June 3 Merrimac sunk to block Santiago harbor
June 6 Marines land at Guantamamo Bay
June 22 Landings at Daiquiri and Siboney
June 24 Battle of Las Guasimas |
June 12, Aguinaldo declares independce of the Philippines, not recognized by the United States or Spain
June 15, Admiral Camara's squadron powerful Pelayo, Carlos V ordered to sail from spain to the Philippines via Suez
June 20 The cruiser USS Charleston takes possession of Guam |
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July |
July 1 battles of El Caney and San Juan Hill
July 3 The Naval battle of Santiago de Cuba
Santiago under seige,July 10, naval bombardment of Santiago
July 17 Gen Toral surrenders Santiago
July 18 Spanish Foreign Minister begins peace process
July 25, Gen Miles lands at Guánica,Puerto Rico |
July 5 Admiral Camara's squadron arrives in Suez
July 10, Dewey threatens Germans with war over German actions in the Philippines
July 7 Admiral Camara's squadron recalled to Spain |
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July 7, Hawaii annexed |
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Aug 12 hostilities ended with Protocol of Peace |
Aug 13, Manila captured from Spanishin mock battle,fighting breaks out among US and Filipinos, beginning of Philippine-American War
Aug 14, 11,000 US troops sent to Philippines |
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Dec |
Dec 10, formal signing of Peace Treaty in Paris
in 1903 perpetual lease of Guantanamo Bay agreed to |
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