Author: Jack Shulimson
Publisher: CreateSpace
ISBN: 9781491024287
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 176

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The modern Marine Corps owes its genesis to the Spanish-American War when the United States entered the world stage.

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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 180

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Author: Tim McNeese
Publisher: Morgan Reynolds Publishing
ISBN: 9781883846794
Category : Cuba
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Examines the causes behind the sinking of the battleship Maine and the start of the Spanish-American War.

Author: Charles Dwight Sigsbee
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 390

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Author: Michael Blow
Publisher: William Morrow
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 520

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On February 15, 1898, the Maine blew up in Havana harbor. The pride of the U.S. Navy, this modern battleship was technologically unsurpassed anywhere in the world. With the explosion, the efforts of the U.S. and President McKinley to engineer a peace in the Cuban struggle for independence from Spain ended. Now comes the dramatic account of this disaster and its consequences. Photographs and maps.

Author: James R. Gilfillan
Publisher:
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Category : Northampton (Mass.)
Languages : en
Pages : 154

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Author: Robert Somerlott
Publisher: Enslow Publishing
ISBN: 9780766018556
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 134

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Examines the brief yet significant conflict between the United States and Spain.

Author: Brad K. Berner
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1611475759
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 281

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This documentary history is intended for specialist and non-specialist alike. The introductions to the book’s sections, together with introductions to each document, provide a general history of the war. The contents cover the pre-war, war, and post-war periods in Cuba, Guam, Hawaii, Puerto Rico, Spain, the Philippines, and the United States. Included are documents on the main battles and diplomatic history of the war, along with internal situations in Cuba, Puerto Rico, Spain, the Philippines, and the United States. Of particular interest is the section on Black Americans’ views and participation in the war, and the section on the views of many participants, military and non-military.

Author: John F. Wukovits
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781560066828
Category : Spanish-American War, 1898
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Discusses the causes, events, and results of the Spanish-American War, including the explosion of the USS Maine, American and Spanish military preparations, the battles of Minila, Las Guasimas, El Caney, San Juan Hill, and Kettle Hill, Spain's surrender, and America's increased role in world affairs.

Author: Louis A. Pérez
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN: 0807847429
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 191

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A century after the Cuban war for independence was fought, Louis Pérez examines the meaning of the war of 1898 as represented in one hundred years of American historical writing. Offering both a critique of the conventional historiography and an alternate