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The Capture of Guam was a bloodless engagement between the United States and Spain during the Spanish–American War. The U.S. Navy sent a single cruiser, USS Charleston , to capture the island of Guam , which was under Spanish control.
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.
Newark Advocate veterans columnist Doug Stout of the Licking County Library tells how Perry Miles and the USS Charleston took Spanish Fort San Luis.
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.
The Plaza de España (Spain Square) located in central Hagåtña, the capital of the United States territory of Guam, was the location of the Governors Palace during the island's long period of Spanish occupation. Most of the palace was destroyed during the shelling of Hagåtña during the reconquest of Guam in World War II.
After gaining control of Guam during the 1898 Spanish–American War, the United States declared the entire island of Guam a naval installation that led to the US Navy governing the island. [ 1 ] On 5 April 1901, President William McKinley created the Insular Force of the U.S. Navy , authorizing the Secretary of the Navy to enlist up to 500 ...
Hågat (formerly Agat) is a village in the United States territory of Guam. It is located south of Apra Harbor on the island's western shore. The village's population has decreased since the island's 2010 census. [2] The village is 10 miles (16 km) southwest of Hagåtña, [3] with most of the residents ethnic Chamorros, the