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The situation prior to the Spanish–American War was particularly tense. Several members of the media, such as William Randolph Hearst, and of the military were calling for intervention by the United States to help the revolutionaries in Cuba. American opinion was overwhelmingly swayed and hostility towards Spain began to build.
The Spanish–American War was the first U.S. war in which the motion picture camera played a role. [221] The Library of Congress archives contain many films and film clips from the war. [ 222 ] As good footage of fighting was difficult to capture, filmed reenactments using model ships and cigar smoke were shown on vaudeville screens.
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A Ship to Remember: The Maine and the Spanish–American War. New York: William Morrow & Co., 1992. ISBN 978-0-688-09714-1. Foner, Philip S. The Spanish-Cuban-American War and the Birth of American Imperialism 1895–1902. 2 Volumes, New York/London 1972 (very detailed with plenty of sources from US archives). Samuels, Peggy and Harold.
Quickly after the end of the Spanish American War organizations dedicated to the memory of the Spanish American War and its veterans began to form. The United Spanish War Veterans was one of such organization that became the dominant association for Spanish American War veterans. Later a womans auxiliary made up of wives, daughters, and ...
The Rough Riders was a nickname given to the 1st United States Volunteer Cavalry, one of three such regiments raised in 1898 for the Spanish–American War and the only one to see combat. The United States Army was small, understaffed, and disorganized in comparison to its status during the American Civil War roughly thirty
Lancaster paid tribute to its war veterans with a parade and a brief ceremony. Honored in 1962 were three men from Fairfield County who fought in the Spanish American-War. They were Wilfred Clay ...
The Puerto Rico campaign was the American military sea and land operation on the island of Puerto Rico during the Spanish–American War.The offensive began on May 12, 1898, when the United States Navy attacked the capital, San Juan.