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The last message the authorities on Guam had received from Spain was dated 14 April 1898, a month before war was declared. U.S. Navy Captain Henry Glass , captain of the cruiser Charleston , was en route from California to Manila , when in Honolulu he was joined by three transport ships, City of Peking , City of Sydney , and Australia . [ 2 ]
Together, they moved to Guam, then a Spanish colonial territory. On June 20, 1898, during the Spanish–American War, the United States captured Guam. The existing Spanish garrison, including Governor Juan Marina, were taken as prisoners of war to Manila. The existing Spanish citizens of the island were also disarmed.
The Naval Government of Guam [1] was a provisional military government and later unincorporated, unorganized territory of the United States that was established during the Spanish–American War in 1898. It was under the administration of the United States Department of the Navy until the territory of Guam was organized in 1950.
On June 21, 1898, the United States captured Guam in a bloodless landing during the Spanish–American War. By the Treaty of Paris , Spain officially ceded the island to the United States. [ 10 ] : 110–112 Between the American capture of Guam, and installation of a Naval Governor in August 1899, there was a flux in governance of the island.
The Battle of Guam (21 July – 10 August 1944) was the American recapture of the Japanese-held island of Guam, a U.S. territory in the Mariana Islands captured by the Japanese from the United States in the First Battle of Guam in 1941 during the Pacific campaign of World War II.
Battle of Guam may refer to: . The Battle of Guam (1941), a World War II battle in which Japanese forces took the island from the Americans in December 1941; The Battle of Guam (1944), a World War II battle in which two American divisions fought for a month to retake the island from the Japanese
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Following the explosion of the battleship USS Maine in Havana harbor in February 1898, the U.S. declared war on Spain in support of the Cuban insurgents. Havana harbor was blockaded, and by the end of May the Spanish fleet was bottled up in Santiago Bay, 40 mi (35 nmi; 64 km) west of Guantánamo Bay, by Rear Admiral William T. Sampson.