By 1898, after three years of relentless fighting, Spain was on the brink of surrender, and the Cuban revolutionaries were ...

Unlike the Ten Years' War, the Cuban Independence Movement of the 1890s ... leader of the Cuban revolution in 1895. Garcia (1839-1898), one of the best known Cuban insurgents, was an essential ...

New Year’s Day 1898 found the Cuban War of Independence from Spain entering its third year. News reports of brutal Spanish ...

On this day in history, April 20, 1898, the 25th president, William McKinley, went to Congress to ask for declaration of war on Spain in defense of Cuba, which had been battling Spain.

On February 15, 1898, a mysterious explosion destroyed the American battleship Maine in Havana Harbor and helped propel the United States into a war ... that Cuba's struggle for independence ...

And Cuba's independence came very late ... that had been interrupted by the American intervention in the War of 1898... The illogical result of that is that he has been able to exculpate himself ...