America’s first great military debut on the international stage took place in 1898 when it launched a war against Spain. No longer was the U.S. military limited largely to the American continent. The new Navy, pushed forward by its new Assistant Se…
On Aug. 12, 1898, the Spanish-American War ended in armistice. The Spanish-American War started after the USS Maine suddenly exploded in Havana Harbor in February 1898, an incident that was…
The Spanish-American War started after the USS Maine suddenly exploded in Havana Harbor in February 1898, an incident that was later found to be caused by faulty ship design but was blamed, at the time, on a Spanish mine. The resulting war …