Complex sentence: Besides the actions off Cárdenas they faced the American "Mosquito Squadron" with some success in Manzanillo, Cienfuegos and even in Philippine waters, where the gunboat "Elcano" captured the American bark "Saranac" on 26 February 1898.
Split into simpler sentences: Besides the actions off Cárdenas they faced the American "Mosquito Squadron" with some success in Manzanillo, Cienfuegos and even in Philippine waters. There the gunboat "Elcano" captured the American bark "Saranac" on 26 February 1898.