Puerto Ricans have participated in all U. S. wars since 1898, most notably World War I, World War II, the Korean and Vietnam wars, as well as the current Middle Eastern conflicts.

*, was a battleship launched 24 March 1898, sailed with the Great White Fleet, participated in World War I and World War II then sold for scrapping 9 August 1955

Wood participated in the last campaign against Geronimo in 1886, and was awarded the Medal of Honor, in 1898, for carrying dispatches 100 miles through hostile territory and for commanding an infantry detachment ( whose officers had been lost ) in hand-to-hand combat against the Apache.

Puerto Ricans have fully participated in all U. S. wars since 1898.

Hostos returned to the U. S. in 1898 and actively participated in the Puerto Rican and Cuban independence movements ; his hopes for Puerto Rico's independence, after the Spanish-American War turned into disappointment when the United States government rejected his proposals and instead converted the island into a United States territory.

On 3 July 1898, in command of Texas, he participated in the Battle of Santiago de Cuba, in which Pascual Cervera y Topete's Spanish Fleet was destroyed off Santiago de Cuba.

Named after USS Marblehead which participated in the various battles at Guantánamo Bay during the Spanish-American War 1898.

Richardson Spensley participated as a player-manager for Genoa in the first ever Italian Football Championship ( which he initiated ) during 1898 which his club won.

They patrolled the waters off Cuba, Puerto Rico, and Key West and participated in the shelling of San Juan in May 1898.

Between 1898 and 1902, Hassel participated in Otto Sverdrup's attempt to circumnavigate Greenland.

Rafael García Valiño ( 1898 – 1975 ) was a Spanish Army Officer who participated in the Spanish Civil War.

He participated in the suppression of the Chicago railroad riots of 1894, then went to Cuba as an aide to General Sumner ( 1898 – 1899 ) during the Spanish American War.

Robeson ordered five warships on June 23, 1874 to implement U. S. naval resurgence ; all participated in the Spanish American War that started in 1898.

During the Spanish-American War he commanded and participated in the bombardment of Santiago on July 1, 1898.

He commanded the auxiliary cruiser during the Spanish-American War of 1898 and participated in the Battle of Guantánamo Bay, in which two Spanish gunboats and a few infantry companies attempted to resist an American and Cuban capture of the bay.

Prior to, during and after the Philippine Revolution of 1896 – 1898, the babaylans of Dios Buhawi and Papa Isio of Negros Occidental participated in the struggle to throw off the Spanish yoke.

San Diego High participated in the first high school football game in San Diego County in 1898, defeating Escondido High School 6-0.

In 1898 he went back to Paris to write a PhD dissertation on The Religious Philosophy of Kant at the Sorbonne, and to study in earnest with Widor.

* 1898 – The Hawaiian flag is lowered from ʻIolani Palace in an elaborate annexation ceremony and replaced with the flag of the United States to signify the transfer of sovereignty from the Republic of Hawaii to the United States.

The armed car was invented by Royal Page Davidson at Northwestern Military and Naval Academy in 1898 with the Davidson-Duryea gun carriage and the later Davidson Automobile Battery armored car.

This intrigue finally led Harcourt and Morley to resign their positions in 1898 as they continued to be at loggerheads with Rosebery over Irish home rule and issues relating to imperialism.

He was briefly reunited with his mother at nine years old, before Hannah was forced to readmit her family to the workhouse in July 1898.

Impressed by Brâncuși's talent for carving, an industrialist entered him in the Craiova School of Arts and Crafts ( școala de arte și meserii ), where he pursued his love for woodworking, graduating with honors in 1898.

The Seminary's brief affiliation with the traditional congregations that established the Union of Orthodox Congregations in 1898 was severed due to the Orthodox rejection of the Seminary's academic approach to Jewish learning.

The term " Cheer Leader " had been used as early as 1897, with Princeton's football officials having named three students as Cheer Leaders: Thomas, Easton and Guerin from Princeton's classes of 1898, 1898 and 1899, respectively, on October 26, 1897 ; these students would cheer for the team also at football practices, and special cheering sections were designated in the stands for the games themselves for both the home and visiting teams.

Man with the Cat ( Henry Sturgis Drinker ), 1898

Despite occasional entanglements with European Powers such as the War of 1812 and the 1898 Spanish-American War, U. S. foreign policy was marked by steady expansion of its foreign trade and scope during the 19th century, and it maintained its policy of avoiding wars with and between European powers.

In North America those who continued to associate with Britain on the basis of the amended 1898 statement became known as the Amended Fellowship, in contrast to the Unamended Fellowship, who took their lead from the Christadelphian Advocate Magazine of Thomas Williams of Chicago.

However, there are some problems with Bacardi's account, as the Spanish-American war was fought in 1898, Cuba's liberation was in 1898, and the Rough Riders left Cuba in September 1898, but Coca-Cola was not available in Cuba until 1900.

By 1898, the family was self-sustaining with suitable accommodations for their large family.

Among his 69 Ph. D. students in Göttingen were many who later became famous mathematicians, including ( with date of thesis ): Otto Blumenthal ( 1898 ), Felix Bernstein ( 1901 ), Hermann Weyl ( 1908 ), Richard Courant ( 1910 ), Erich Hecke ( 1910 ), Hugo Steinhaus ( 1911 ), and Wilhelm Ackermann ( 1925 ).

In 1898 Beatty returned from leave after the Sudan campaign, but finding life in Ireland at the family home not to his taste, stayed instead with his brother at Newmarket.

He made a wooden frame with carved reliefs for the large painting Metabolism ( 1898 ), initially called Adam and Eve.

Georges Méliès first used superimposition on a dark background in la Caverne maudite ( The Cave of the Demons ) made a couple of months later in 1898, and then elaborated it further with multiple superimpositions in the one shot in l ' Homme de têtes ( The Troublesome Heads ).

* 1895 – Revolution breaks out in Baire, a town near Santiago de Cuba, beginning the second war for Cuban independence, that ends with the Spanish-American War in 1898.

From 1809 to 1898, a period called Pax Russica, Finnish-Russian relations had been exceptionally peaceful and stable compared with other parts of the Russian Empire.

Fulani Muslims migrated to Fouta Djallon in Central Guinea and established an Islamic state from 1735 to 1898 with a written Constitution and alternate rulers.

Nationalist movements emerged in the last significant remnants of the old empire ( Cuba and the Philippines ) which led to a brief war with the United States ( 1898 ) and the loss of the remaining old colonies at the end of the century.

K. Paul, Trench, Trübner & co., ltd., 1898.

K. Paul, Trench, Trübner & co., ltd., 1898.

* Life and Letters of Paul, ( 1898 )

In 1926, the government of South Africa designated Kruger National Park as the nation's first national park, although it was an expansion of the earlier Sabie Game Reserve established in 1898 by President Paul Kruger of the old South African Republic, after whom the park was named.

Paul Leroy Robeson ( April 9, 1898 – January 23, 1976 ) was an American singer and actor who was a political activist for the Civil Rights Movement.

Paul Robeson was born in Princeton in 1898, to Reverend William Drew Robeson and Maria Louisa Bustill.

State President Paul Kruger at his fourth inauguration, Pretoria, 1898

* May 8 – Sharbel Makhluf, Lebanese monk canonized in 1977 by Pope Paul VI ( d. 1898 )

* January 23 – Paul Robeson, African-American actor, singer, writer, and activist ( b. 1898 )

Félicien Rops ( 1833 – 98 ) won acclaim as a graphic artist, as did surrealist painters Paul Delvaux ( 1897 – 1994 ) and René Magritte ( 1898 – 1967 ).

But the most important Pierrot of mid-century was Charles-Dominique-Martin Legrand, known as Paul Legrand ( 1816 – 1898 ; see illustration at top of page ).

* Paul T. Hogan ( 1898 – 1976 ), American football player

Many of Matisse's paintings from 1898 to 1901 make use of a Divisionist technique he adopted after reading Paul Signac's essay, " D ' Eugène Delacroix au Néo-impressionisme ".

Erich Maria Remarque ( 22 June 1898 – 25 September 1970 ), born Erich Paul Remark, was a German author, best known for his novel All Quiet on the Western Front.

Erich Paul Remarque was born on 22 June 1898 into a working-class family in the German city of Osnabrück to Peter Franz Remark ( b. 14 June 1867, Kaiserswerth ) and Anna Maria ( née Stallknecht ; born 21 November 1871, Katernberg ).

On 29 March 1898, Hermann von Eckardstein, who had described Chamberlain as " unquestionably the most energetic and enterprising personality of the Salisbury ministry ", arranged a meeting between the Colonial Secretary and the German Ambassador in London, Paul von Hatzfeldt.

* Paul Robeson ( 1898 – 1976 ), actor, athlete, bass-baritone concert singer, writer, civil rights activist, Fellow traveler, Spingarn Medal winner, and Stalin Peace Prize laureate.

Most famous Belgian authors are: Guido Gezelle ( 1830 – 1899 ), Emile Verhaeren ( 1855 – 1916 ), Max Elskamp ( 1862 – 1931 ), Maurice Maeterlinck ( 1862 – 1949 ), Paul van Ostaijen ( 1896 – 1926 ), Henri Michaux ( French born and educated in Belgium, 1899 – 1984 ) and Jacques Brel ( 1929 – 1978 ) and prose writers: Hendrik Conscience ( 1812 – 1883 ), Charles de Coster ( 1827 – 1879 ), Willem Elsschot ( 1882 – 1960 ), Michel de Ghelderode ( 1898 – 1962 ), Georges Simenon 1903-1989, Louis Paul Boon ( 1912 – 1979 ), Hugo Claus ( 1929 – 2008 ), Pierre Mertens ( born in 1939 ) Ernest Claes ( 1885 – 1968 ), and, Amélie Nothomb ( born in 1967 ).

Bathori originally studied piano and planned for a career as concert pianist but soon turned to singing, making her professional debut sometime in 1898 at the small Théâtre de la Bodinière in the rue Saint-Lazare in a concert to honor the poet Paul Verlaine.

* St Paul the Traveller and the Roman Citizen ( 1895 ; German translation, 1898 )

That motion, introduced together with another Volksraad member by the name of R. K. Loveday, and accepted for discussion in September 1895 by a majority of one vote, resulted in the proclamation by Paul Kruger president of the Transvaal Republic, on 26 March 1898, of a " Government Wildlife Park.

On his retirement in 1898, Naorojee sold the company to The Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Company Limited, at that time owned by Jardine, Matheson & Co. and Sir Paul Chater.

Paul J. Baron designed the town in 1898.

* Paul Sidney Martin ( 1898 – 1974 ), American archaeologist