Spanish-American War

April 21 – August 13, 1898 · Cuba and the Philippines

Result American victory

Spain-U.S. war of 21 April to 13 August 1898, sparked by the sinking of the USS Maine and America's intervention in the Cuban War of Independence and Philippine Revolution. It ended Spain's colonial presence in the Americas, Asia, and the Pacific; the U.S. took Puerto Rico, Guam, and the Philippines and set up a Cuban protectorate. The Treaty of Paris of 10 December 1898 formally ended the war.

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United States

Spain

Theodore Roosevelt

William McKinley belligerent leader

Emilio Aguinaldo belligerent leader

Fitzhugh Lee belligerent leader

Russell A. Alger belligerent leader

William Rufus Shafter military commander

Nelson A. Miles military commander

John Davis Long military commander

Práxedes Mateo Sagasta belligerent leader

Pascual Cervera y Topete military commander

Arsenio Martínez Campos military commander

Ramón Blanco, 1st Marquess of Peña Plata military commander

Arsenio Linares y Pombo military commander

Manuel Macías y Casado military commander

Strength and losses

Strength: 300,000
Casualties: 4,119

United States Strength 306,760 · Killed 385 · Deaths 2,446 · Wounded 1,662

Spain Killed c. 775

Killed: c. 3,685

Units

Puerto Rico expedition (Miles) United States Army Corps of Engineers Washington State Guard Philippine Expeditionary Force (VIII Corps) V Corps (1898) Rough Riders Theodore Roosevelt 14th Infantry Regiment (United States) 16th Infantry Regiment (United States)

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18th Infantry Regiment (United States) 19th Infantry Regiment (United States) 1st Cavalry Regiment (United States) 22nd Infantry Regiment (United States) 2nd Cavalry Regiment (United States) 2nd Infantry Regiment (United States) 3rd Cavalry Regiment (United States) 4th Infantry Regiment (United States) 5th Cavalry Regiment 7th Infantry Regiment (United States) 8th Cavalry Regiment 1st Marine Battalion (1898) 1st U.S. Artillery, Battery E Asiatic Squadron USS Olympia Flying Squadron (1898) North Atlantic Squadron USS Oregon

Spanish Army Alfonso Beorlegui Canet Colonel Antonio Castejón Espinosa Teniente General Antonio Cordón García General Arsenio Linares y Pombo General Bernardo de Gálvez General Carlos Asensio Cabanillas Lieutenant General Carlos Romero Giménez Colonel Diego Felípez de Guzmán, 1st Marquis of Leganés General Felipe VI of Spain Francisco García-Escámez General Francisco de Melo General Gaspar de Guzmán, Count-Duke of Olivares General Gonzalo Queipo de Llano General Hernán Cortés General Joaquín Ezpeleta Enrile Field Marshal José Carrillo de Albornoz, 1st Duke of Montemar General José Fernando de Abascal y Sousa Captain General of the Army José Miaja Lieutenant General José Moscardó Ituarte General José Sanjurjo Lieutenant General José Solchaga General José de Urrea General Juan Francisco de Bette, 3rd Marquis of Lede General Leopoldo Menéndez General Louis Des Balbes de Berton de Crillon, duc de Mahon Captain General of the Army Miguel Primo de Rivera, 2nd Marquis of Estella General Pedro Pablo Abarca de Bolea, 10th Count of Aranda Captain General of the Army Pedro de Alcántara Téllez Girón General Rafael García Valiño Teniente General Sebastián Pozas Perea General Toussaint Louverture Pablo Morillo 1791–present Spanish garrison of Manila Spanish garrison of Santiago de Cuba Spanish Caribbean Squadron (Cervera) Cristóbal Colón Infanta Maria Teresa Spanish Pacific Squadron (Montojo)

Philippine Army Philippine Revolutionary Army 10th Infantry Regiment (United States) 111th Infantry Regiment (United States) 1st Infantry Regiment (United States) 1st Maine Infantry Regiment 21st Infantry Regiment (United States) 24th Infantry Regiment

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3rd Air Defense Artillery Regiment 6th Infantry Regiment (United States) 9th Infantry Regiment (United States) Philippine Navy

Battles 13

Battle of Manila Bay May 1, 1898 · American victory
Battle of Cárdenas May 11, 1898 · Spanish victory
Battle of Cienfuegos May 11, 1898 · Spanish victory
Bombardment of San Juan May 12, 1898 · Spanish Victory
Battle of Guantánamo Bay June 6–14, 1898 · American-Cuban victory
Capture of Guam June 20–21, 1898
Battle of Las Guasimas June 24, 1898 · Retreat of both armies
Battle of El Caney July 1, 1898 · American Pyrrhic victory
Battle of San Juan Hill July 1, 1898 · American Pyrrhic victory
Battle of Santiago de Cuba July 3, 1898 · American victory
Siege of Santiago July 3–17, 1898 · American-Cuban victory
Puerto Rico campaign July 25 – August 13, 1898 · US inability to take the island
Battle of Manila (1898) August 13, 1898 · Filipino-American victory