On Feb. 15, 1898, the U.S. battleship Maine exploded in Havana harbor, killing 260 crewmen and leading to a U.S. declaration ...

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.

A look back at local, national and world events through Deseret News archives. On Feb. 6, 1899, a peace treaty between the United States and Spain was ratified by the U.S. Senate; the treaty ended the ...