num_pages: 654
description: “Remember the Maine!” The war cry spread throughout the United States after the American battleship was blown up in Havana harbor on February 15, 1898. Americans, already sympathetic with Cuba’s struggle for independence from Spain, demanded action. Brief and decisive, not too costly, the Spanish-American War made the United States a world power. David F. Trask’s War with Spain in 1898 is a cogent political and military history of that “splendid little war.” It describes the failure of diplomacy; the state of preparedness of both sides; the battles, including those of Theodore Roosevelt and his Rough Riders; the enlargement of conflict to rout the Spanish from Puerto Rico and the Philippines; and the misconceptions surrounding the war.
language: English
title: The War With Spain in 1898
titlecomplete: The War With Spain in 1898
characters: John Davis Long, Alfred Thayer Mahan, Eugenio Montero Ríos, José Toral y Vázquez, Calixto García, Maria Christina of Austria, John Hay, Whitelaw Reid, Ramón Auñón y Villalón, Theodore Roosevelt, William McKinley, Winfield Scott Schley, Emilio Aguinaldo, Ramón Blanco, 1st Marquis of Peña Plata, William R. Day, Patricio Montojo, Joseph Wheeler, Charles G. Dawes, Thomas M. Anderson, Basilio Augustín, Pascual Cervera y Topete, French Ensor Chadwick, Arsenio Linares y Pombo, George Dewey, Leonard Wood, Russell A. Alger, William Rufus Shafter, Stewart L. Woodford, Henry Clark Corbin, Henry Cabot Lodge, Manuel de la Cámara y Libermoore, William T. Sampson, Nelson A. Miles
genres: Nonfiction, History, Military History, American History
ratings_count: 22
series: Macmillan Wars of the United States
publisher: University of Nebraska Press