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  2. Spanish American wars of independence - Wikipedia

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    The Spanish American wars of independence (Spanish: Guerras de independencia hispanoamericanas) took place across the Spanish Empire in the early 19th century. The struggles in both hemispheres began shortly after the outbreak of the Peninsular War , forming part of the broader context of the Napoleonic Wars .

  3. Spanish–American War - Wikipedia

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    In 1904, the United Spanish War Veterans was created from smaller groups of the veterans of the Spanish–American War. The organization has been defunct since 1992 when its last surviving member Nathan E. Cook a veteran of the Philippine-American war died, but it left an heir in the Sons of Spanish–American War Veterans, created in 1937 at ...

  4. Social history of soldiers and veterans in the United States

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    The Spanish-American War of 1898 was a medical disaster for American forces. In the entire war from May 1 to September 20, 1898, 345 died from combat and 2,565 died from disease. [108] Disease was rampant, with 25,000 soldiers hospitalized, of whom 21,000 contracted typhoid fever and 1,590 died from it.

  5. Treaty of Paris (1898) - Wikipedia

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    The Spanish–American War began on April 25, 1898, due to a series of escalating disputes between the two nations, and ended on December 10, 1898, with the signing of the Treaty of Paris. It resulted in Spain's loss of its control over the remains of its overseas empire. [ 7 ]

  6. Historiography of Colonial Spanish America - Wikipedia

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    A 17th–century Dutch map of the Americas. The historiography of Spanish America in multiple languages is vast and has a long history. [1] [2] [3] It dates back to the early sixteenth century with multiple competing accounts of the conquest, Spaniards’ eighteenth-century attempts to discover how to reverse the decline of its empire, [4] and people of Spanish descent born in the Americas ...

  7. Spain–United States relations - Wikipedia

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    When the Spanish Civil War erupted in 1936, the United States remained neutral and banned arms sales to either side. This was in line with both American neutrality policies, and with a Europe-wide agreement to not sell arms for use in the Spanish war lest it escalate into a world war. Congress endorsed the embargo by a near-unanimous vote.

  8. Puerto Rico campaign - Wikipedia

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    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.

  9. Timeline of the Spanish–American War - Wikipedia

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    America's Economic Way of War: War and the U.S. Economy From the Spanish–American War to the First Gulf War. New York: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780521859400. Rosa, Albert; Castro, Jorge; Blanco, Florentino (2006).