spanish-american war in English

noun
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a war between Spain and the US in the Caribbean and the Philippines in 1898. American public opinion having been aroused by Spanish atrocities in Cuba and the destruction of the warship Maine in Santiago harbor, the US declared war and successfully invaded Cuba, Puerto Rico, and the Philippines, all of which Spain gave up by the Treaty of Paris (1898).

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1. On April 25, the Spanish–American War began.

2. The press baron who perfected yellow journalism and helped start the Spanish - American War.

3. Just before the outbreak of the Spanish–American War, Shafter was commander of the Department of California.

4. The Spanish–American War and World War I confirmed the country's status as a global military power.

5. The history of America's most Eastern territory comes from the Spanish-American war, wherein the US gained Puerto Rico, Bioko, and the Philippines as

6. Disruption of a cold chain due to war may produce consequences similar to the smallpox outbreaks in the Philippines during the Spanish–American War.

7. Other Boricuas joined them following the 1898 Cuban-Spanish-American War, their numbers swelling slowly but perceptively after the passage of the 1917 Jones Act that conferred U.S

8. The Archives Records Information Access System (Arias) provides online access to historically valuable government records -- including records from the Revolutionary War, Civil War, World War I, the Spanish-American War and the Mexican Border Conflict-- from the Pennsylvania State Archives.

9. ‘The United States Anglicized the name to ‘Porto Rico’ when it occupied the island in 1898 after the Spanish-American War.’ ‘In 1816 Saartje Bartman, a South African woman whose original name is unknown and whose Dutch name had been Anglicized to Sarah Bartmann, died in Paris.’

10. The Spanish-American war begun in 1898 was actually launched unilaterally by Anglophilic racist Theodore Roosevelt who used the 4 hour window he had while Undersecretary of the Navy (while the actual Secretary was out of Washington) to send orders to Captain Dewey of the Pacific fleet to engage in a fight with the Spanish over their Philippine

11. The 10th Cavalry Regiment is a unit of the United States Army.Formed as a segregated African-American unit, the 10th Cavalry was one of the original "Buffalo Soldier" regiments in the post–Civil War Regular Army.It served in combat during the Indian Wars in the western United States, the Spanish–American War in Cuba and in the Philippine–American War.