War with Spain in 1898

Name: War with Spain in 1898
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ISBN: 9780029329504

ISBN-10: 0029329507

ISBN-13: 9780029329504

Edition: 1981

Authors: David F. Trask, Louis Morton

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"Remember the Maine!" The war cry spread throughout the United States after the American battleship was blown up in Havana harbor on February 15, 1898. Americans, already sympathetic with Cuba's struggle for independence from Spain, demanded action. Brief and decisive, not too costly, the Spanish-American War made the United States a world power.David F. Trask's War with Spain in 1898 is a cogent political and military history of that "splendid little war." It describes the failure of diplomacy; the state of preparedness of both sides; the battles, including those of Theodore Roosevelt and his Rough Riders; the enlargement of conflict to rout the Spanish from Puerto Rico and the…

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List price: $45.00
Copyright year: 1981
Publisher: Free Press
Binding: Children's Board Books
Pages: 775
Weight: 2.684
Language: English



List of Maps


Preface


Introduction


Origins of the War with Spain


The Failure of Diplomacy


Spain's Preparations for War


War Plans and Preparations in the United States


The Battle of Manila Bay


The Blockade of Cuba


Mobilization of the United States Army


Tampa


Beginnings of the Campaign at Santiago de Cuba


Battles of El Caney and the San Juan Heights


The Sea Battle of Santiago de Cuba


Admiral Camara and the Eastern Squadron


The Siege of Santiago de Cuba


After the Capitulation at Santiago de Cuba


The Puerto Rican Campaign


Beginnings of the Manila Campaign


The Rise of Emilio Aguinaldo


The Conquest of Manila


Preliminaries of Peace


The Treaty of Paris


Conclusion


Note on Sources and Authorities


Abbreviations


Notes


Index