Spanish–American War | |||||||||
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Part of the Philippine Revolution and the Cuban War of Independence | |||||||||
Clockwise from top left: US troops raising the Stars and Stripes over Fort San Antonio Abad after the Battle of Manila; the capture of El Caney; 1st Marine Battalion raising the United States flag at Guantánamo Bay; 3rd Wisconsin Volunteer Battalion awaits orders to charge the Spanish; USS Olympia entering Manila Bay; Charge of the Rough Riders at San Juan Hill |
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Belligerents | |||||||||
United States Cuba Philippine Republic |
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Commanders and leaders | |||||||||
William McKinley Nelson A. Miles Theodore Roosevelt William R. Shafter George Dewey William Sampson Wesley Merritt Joseph Wheeler Charles D. Sigsbee Máximo Gómez Demetrio Castillo Duany Emilio Aguinaldo Apolinario Mabini Antonio Luna |
Maria Christina Práxedes Mateo Sagasta Patricio Montojo Pascual Cervera Arsenio Linares Manuel Macías Ramón Blanco Antero Rubín Valeriano Weyler Fermín Jáudenes José Toral y Velázquez |
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Strength | |||||||||
Cuban Republic: |
Spanish Army: 10,005 regulars and militia(Puerto Rico), 51,331 regulars and militia(Philippines) |
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Casualties and losses | |||||||||
Cuban Republic:
1,577 wounded
Philippine Republic: |
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American victory
Cuban Republic:
30,000 irregulars
United States:
379,000 regulars and volunteers
Philippine Republic:
Spanish Army:
Cuban Republic:
10,665 dead
United States:
2,910 dead