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Wikipedia: The Spanish–American War was a conflict in 1898 between Spain and the United States. While many historians and experts routinely include the indigenous struggles for independence in Cuba, Puerto Rico, Guam and the Philippine Islands under this heading, the name Spanish-American War (explicitly suggesting the period of US military involvement, as it does) narrowly refers to the US-sponsored punctuation to the late-nineteenth-century turmoil in the Spanish colonies. Ostensibly fought over the issue of Cuban independence, the four-month war developed into a global conflict as the U.S. Navy sought to dislodge Spain from longstanding colonial outposts in both the Caribbean and the South Pacific.
![[Concord participated in the Battle of Manila Bay, depicted here in a contemporary color print]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/USS_Olympia_art_NH_91881_KN_cropped_s.jpg "Concord participated in the Battle of Manila Bay, depicted here in a contemporary color print")
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![[Puerto Rican and Spanish troops in Guayama]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/Spanish_defenders_of_Guayama_s.jpg "Puerto Rican and Spanish troops in Guayama")
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![[Charge of the Rough Riders at San Juan Hill by Frederic Remington]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/Charge_of_the_Rough_Riders_at_San_Juan_Hill_s.jpg "Charge of the Rough Riders at San Juan Hill by Frederic Remington")
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![[Spanish satirical drawing published at "la Campana de Gràcia" , criticizing the United States behavior regarding...]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/La_fallera_de_l_27oncle_Sam_s.jpg "Spanish satirical drawing published at \"la Campana de Gràcia\" , criticizing the United States behavior regarding...")
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![[Segregation in the U.S. military, 1898.]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/BuffaloSoldiers_SpanAmWar_s.jpg "Segregation in the U.S. military, 1898.")
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![[Pacific Theatre]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/Pacifico_98_s.jpg "Pacific Theatre")
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![[With the end of the war, Colonel Theodore Roosevelt musters out of the U]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/TR_On_Horseback_Back_From_Cuba_1898_s.jpg "With the end of the war, Colonel Theodore Roosevelt musters out of the U")
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