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CUBA CARIBBEAN SEA Santiago de Cuba Las Guásimas El Caney El Pozo Siboney Daiquirí Guantánamo Bay Caimanera Fort Toro Fisherman's Point CUBA Havana Map area...
AFTERMATH: A U.S. EMPIRE In one of his last acts as Assistant Secretary of the Navy, Roosevelt dispatched Commodore George Dewey and the U.S. Pacific Fleet to the Philippines. On May 1, 1898, Dewey destroyed the Spanish squadron at Manila Bay without a single U.S. casualty. A peace agreement was signed on Aug. 12, and with a formal treaty in December, Spain ceded Puerto Rico and Guam, sold the Philippines to the U.S. for $20 million and granted independence to Cuba PHILIPPINES Manila Guam
...prepare for decisive action. Long, though by his own account somewhat bemused, did nothing later to counter those orders. So when Congress declared war on Spain on April 25, the U.S. squadrons in both theaters had been heavily reinforced. The results--the destruction of the Spanish fleets in Manila Bay and, two months later, off Santiago, Cuba--were decisive. Spain had been reduced to the rank of a minor power, and the deeply troubled lands of Cuba and the Philippines came under U.S. sway...
...produced a remarkable number of desertions in Australian ports. But the world public was not to know of that. A million people had assembled in San Francisco harbor to watch the fleet depart; half a million Australians greeted it in Sydney. Even the anxiously prepared visit to Tokyo Bay had gone well...
...house. His first child, Alice, is just two days old. That summer he flees to Dakota to mourn, staying for two years (and acquiring a second ranch, Elkhorn), while his sister Bamie rears Alice. During this time, work is completed on Sagamore Hill, Roosevelt's spacious home in Oyster Bay, N.Y., which will serve as the summer White House from...