On Feb. 15, 1898, the U.S. battleship Maine exploded in Havana harbor, killing 260 crewmen and leading to a U.S. declaration ...
an Indiana-class battleship commissioned in 1896, served along America's Eastern Seaboard until 1898, when it was called south to Cuba and Puerto Rico for the Spanish-American War. It wasn't much ...
It won’t come as any surprise that there are stories about smaller, determined military forces battling and winning against ...
At 9:40pm on February 15, 1898, the battleship U.S.S. Maine exploded ... force that propelled the United States into the Spanish-American War.
Troops on the march, Spanish American War. Artist Glackens ... an estimated 100,000 of its citizens died. In the entire war, only the battles of Berlin and Stalingrad resulted in more casualties.