Then, advised by the Architect of the Capitol, the Joint Committee for the Library, traditionally responsible for the works of art in the building, ordered the space cleared and painted in fresco, to show `` the Peace after the Civil War '', `` the Spanish-American War '', and `` the Birth of Aviation '', to match as nearly as feasible Brumidi's technique and composition.

The popularity of local color literature before the Spanish-American War, the steady currency of the Lincoln myth, the increased emphasis on the frontier West in our mass media are cases in point.

* 1898 – Spanish-American War: The United States Navy begins a blockade of Cuban ports and the captures a Spanish merchant ship.

* 1898 – Spanish-American War: The United States declares war on Spain.

* 1898 – The Spanish-American War: The United States declares war on Spain.

However, increased tensions between Spain and the United States, which culminated in the Spanish-American War, finally led to a Spanish withdrawal in 1898, and in 1902 Cuba gained formal independence.

The United States of America gained overseas territories after the Spanish-American War for which the term " American Empire " was coined.

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.

Patriots aiding Cuba during the Spanish-American War — and, later, expatriates avoiding Prohibition — regularly mixed rum and cola as a highball and a toast to this Caribbean island.

It happened during the Spanish-American War at the turn of the century when Teddy Roosevelt, the Rough Riders, and Americans in large numbers arrived in Cuba.

In the Spanish-American War, soldiers purchased crude stamped identification tags, sometimes with misleading information.

* 1898 – Spanish-American War: The Treaty of Paris is signed, officially ending the conflict.

In 1898 Runyon enlisted in the U. S. Army to fight in the Spanish-American War.

* 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.

* 1898 – Spanish-American War: The explodes and sinks in Havana harbor in Cuba, killing more than 260.

* 1899 – Spanish-American War: The Treaty of Paris, a peace treaty between the United States and Spain, is ratified by the United States Senate.

During the Spanish-American War, the U. S. fleet attacking Santiago retreated to Guantánamo's excellent harbor to ride out the summer hurricane season of 1898.

Later it was used in the assault on San Juan Hill during the Spanish-American War.

Because of infighting within Army Ordnance, Gatling guns were again used by the U. S. Army during the Spanish-American War.

The reign of Alfonso XIII ( 1886 – 1931 ) saw the Spanish-American War of 1898, culminating in the loss of the Philippines plus Spain's last colonies in the Americas, Cuba and Puerto Rico ; the " Great War " in Europe ( now known as World War I, 1914 – 1918 ), although Spain maintained neutrality throughout the conflict ; the influenza pandemic nicknamed the Spanish Flu ( 1918 – 1919 ); and the Rif War in Morocco ( 1920 – 1926 ).

From the establishment of the United States after the American Revolution until the Spanish-American War, the foreign policy of the United States had a regional, instead of global, focus.

After its victory in the Spanish-American War of 1898 and the subsequent acquisition of Cuba, Puerto Rico, the Philippines, and Guam, the United States had gained a colonial empire.

At home and on the world stage it demonstrated that the US had become a major seapower in the years after its triumph in the Spanish-American War, with possessions that included Guam, the Philippines, and Puerto Rico.

He argued that America's involvement in the Spanish-American War and the First World War had been deadly mistakes conducted on behalf of Wall Street.

The U. S., after the Spanish-American War, had many expansionists who wanted to annex Cuba.

Wainwright was born at Fort Walla Walla, an army post now in Walla Walla, Washington, and was the son of Robert Powell Page Wainwright, a U. S. Army officer who had served as a 2nd Lt in the US 1st Cavalry in 1875, commanded a squadron at the Battle of Santiago de Cuba during the Spanish-American War, and in 1902 was killed in action in the Philippines.

On 31 May 1940, Maj. Gen. George C. Grunert, a mustang officer who had entered the Army during the Spanish-American War, took command of the Philippine Department.

Constantino contrasts Bonifacio who had no record of compromise with the Spanish with the Cavite leaders who did compromise, resulting in the Pact of Biak-na-Bato whereas the revolution was officially halted and its leaders exiled, though many Filipinos continued to fight ( though Aguinaldo, unofficially allied with the United States, did return to take charge of the revolution during the Spanish-American War ).

Wood had known Theodore Roosevelt well before the Spanish-American War.

If Nelson had shown his independent instincts in the bankruptcy law, he toed the party line in his position on the Spanish-American War, where he enthusiastically supported the war effort.

The definitive growth limiting factor was the decision of the American government, after the Spanish-American War, to award the seized Catholic church buildings of the nascent Philippine Independent Church — the majority of which had become Aglipayan during the revolutionary period — to the Roman Catholic Church.

The movement was at its strongest in the 1830s but had a revival following Spain's defeat in the Spanish-American War in 1898, when Spain lost its last remaining significant colonies, Cuba, Puerto Rico and the Philippines.

This band had a fusion sound and even though it relied on electronic instrumentation it drew more on Brazilian and Spanish-American musical styles than on rock music.

As a result of several Supreme Court cases after the Spanish-American War, the U. S. had to determine how to deal with its newly acquired territories, such as the Philippines, Puerto Rico, Guam, Wake Island, and other areas that were not part of the North American continent and which were not necessarily intended to become a part of the Union of States.

In the German – Spanish Treaty of 1899, the German government agreed to pay Spain 25, 000, 000 Pesetas ( equivalent to 16, 600, 000 goldmarks ) for the Caroline Islands and the Mariana Islands ( excluding Guam, which had been ceded to the USA after the 1898 Spanish-American War ).

The War Department had exhaustively studied and dissected several examples of the Spanish Mauser Model 93 rifle captured during the Spanish-American War, and applied some features of the U. S. Krag rifle to a bolt and magazine system derived from the Mauser Model 93, to produce the new U. S. Springfield Rifle, the Model 1903.

Puerto Rico had been a Spanish colonial possession from 1493 to 1898, when it was taken by the US after the Spanish-American War.

Torpedo boats created a psychological stress on sailors at war, and as early as 1898 during the Spanish-American War, American sailors had opened fire on ocean swells, trains on land, and rocks along the coastline, believing them to be enemy torpedo boats.

Spain had ceded the Philippines after losing the Spanish-American War of 1898.

After the Spanish-American War was declared, Day had argued that the Spanish colonies, other than Cuba, should be returned to Spain, contrary to McKinley's decision that the United States should take over from Spain control of the Philippines, Puerto Rico, and Guam.

During the Spanish-American War the War Department appropriated $ 500, 000 to build the Fort Tyler battery on the island ( named for former President John Tyler who had married Julia Gardiner Tyler who had been born on Gardiners Island ).

As a former senior commander of President Theodore Roosevelt and his Rough Riders during the Spanish-American War, he had some influence along with his past assignment with the US Army Headquarters.

Funston had been a colonel during the Spanish-American and Philippine-American Wars, and Twain had been an outspoken critic of these wars, as immoral ventures of the American state into the imperialist subjugation of foreign peoples and territories.