Spanish-American War

"Remember the Maine, to hell with Spain!"

Date

April 21, 1898 - August 13, 1898.

Location

Spanish owned lands in the Caribbean and the East Indies

Causes

Colonial conflict between Spaniards and Yankees

Sunken ship

Status

Over

Result

American victory:

Guamball, Puerto Ricoball and Philippinesball ceded to the USAball
Creation of US protectorate over Cubaball
Outbreak of the Philippine-American War
Remaining Spanish Oceanic lands sold to the German Empireball

Territorial changes

Philippines, Puerto Rico, Guam ceded. Cuban protectorate

Belligerents
Spainball Puerto Ricoball Cubaball Philippinesball	USAball Cuban Revolutionaries Philippine Revolutionaries

Commanders
Maria Christina Práxedes Mateo Sagasta Patricio Montojo Pascual Cervera Arsenio Linares Manuel Cámara Manuel Macías Ramón Blanco Antero Rubín Valeriano Weyler José Velázquez Basilio Augustín Fermín Jáudenes Diego Ríos	William McKinley Nelson Miles Theodore Roosevelt William Shafter George Dewey William Sampson Wesley Merritt Joseph Wheeler Charles Sigsbee Máximo Gómez Calixto García Demetrio Duany Emilio Aguinaldo Apolinario Mabini Baldomero Aguinaldo Antonio Luna

Casualties
700–800 killed 700–800 wounded 40,000+ prisoners 15,000 dead from disease 6 small ships sunk 11 cruisers sunk 2 destroyers sunk	385 killed 1,662 wounded 11 prisoners 2,061 dead from disease 1 cargo ship sunk 1 cruiser damaged

The Spanish-American War was a great conflict involving

Spainball and

USAball and their colonial subjects due to the suspected sinking of a Murican ship. This war caused the decline of an empire, and the birth of a new one.

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