The Spanish-American War

Spanish–American War
Part of the Philippine Revolution and the Cuban War of Independence
Clockwise from top left: U.S. troops raising the Stars and Stripes over Fort San Antonio Abad after the Battle of Manila; the capture of El Caney; First 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
Date April 21, 1898 – August 13, 1898 (3 months, 3 weeks and 2 days) Location Cuba and Puerto Rico (Caribbean) Philippines and Guam (Asia-Pacific) Result American victory Treaty of Paris U.S. Protectorate over Cuba (1899–1902) followed by proclamation of independent Cuban republic (1902) Subsequent outbreak of the Philippine–American War (1899–1902) Generation of '98 among Spanish intellectuals Spain sells its remaining Pacific islands to Germany Territorial changes Spain relinquishes sovereignty over Cuba, cedes Puerto Rico, Guam and the Philippine Islands to the United States for $20 million
Belligerents
United States Cuban revolutionaries Filipino revolutionaries	Spanish Empire Cuba Philippines Guam Puerto Rico
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	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 Diego de los Ríos
Strength
72,339 troops (total) 53,000 rebels	206,000 troops (Caribbean) Unknown (Philippines)
Casualties and losses
American: 385 killed in action 2,061 dead from disease 11 prisoners 1 cargo ship sunk 1 cruiser damaged	Spanish: 900 killed in action 15,000 dead from disease 40,000+ prisoners 6 small ships sunk 11 cruisers sunk 2 destroyers sunk

American victory

United States

Spanish Empire

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The Spanish–American War (Spanish: Guerra hispano-americana or Guerra hispano-estadounidense; Filipino: Digmaang Espanyol-Amerikano) was a conflict fought between Spain and the United States in 1898. Hostilities began in the aftermath of the internal explosion of the USS Maine in Havana harbor in Cuba leading to United States intervention in the Cuban War of Independence. American acquisition of Spain's Pacific possessions led to its involvement in the Philippine Revolution and ultimately in the Philippine–American War.

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