The Valentine Democrat. [volume] (Valentine, Cherry Co., Neb.) 1896-1898, 1898-08-25
CHRONOLOGY OF THE WAR.

June S.-AmeTlcdu S4uduEOH OohO"iuo
June 40Lieut Hobson sinks cruiser Merrl
mac in the mouth of the harbor OF san
tiago de Cuba.
June 6.-FOrtifcatiOns of Santiago de CUBS
reduced.
June 7.-American squadron bombards and
silences batteries at Santiago
June Monitor Monterey and collier Bru
tus sail for Manila.
June S-Assault on Notifications Of Guam
tanamo Bay.
June 9.-House agrees on war revenue con
ference report.
June 1O-Admiral Sampson reports he has
held Guantanamo harbor since the 7th.
June 10.-Senate agrees on conference re-
port on war revenue bill.
June 1I-Four Americans at Caimanera are
killed in fight with the Spaniards.
June Io.-Thfrty.two transports with Shat
ters troops sail for Santiago.
June 13-President Mckinley signs the wal
tax bill
June 1.-two Americans and several hun.
dred Spaniards killed in a battle at Cal
| manera.
June 15.-Second expedition sailed from San
Francisco for Manila.
June 15.-Great destruction results to San
tiago forts through the use Of the dyna-
mite guns on the Vesuvius
June 17.-Spanish squadron sailed from ca
diz and passed Gibraltar.
June 2O.-Transports with Gen. Shafter's
j troops arrive off Santiago.
| jane 23.-Balance Of troops landed without
accident.
June ~23-Admiral Camara's Cadiz fleet ar
rivesAat Island of Pantellaria.
| June 24.-Sixteen American soldiers killed
and forfT wounded In driving back Span
ish soldiers 1t sec Sc-iago.
June 27.-Commodore WaeSnn to command
fleet to attack Spanish homeS territory.
June 2.-President Mckinley recommends
| thanks of Congress for Lieut.. HCbson, and
tran sfnrr raIf TO Sha line
June 2S-Presfdent proclaims blockade of
Southern Cuba from Cape Frances to Cape
| Cruz.
June 29.-Gen. Shafter reports he can take
Santiago in forty eight hours
| June 29.-The Senate thanks Lieut.. Hobson
| and his men, naming each one personally.
June 3O.-Egyptian Government refused to
let Camara coal his fleet at Port Said.
July 1.-Shafter's army began the assault
upon Santiago de Cuba, capturing the enc
my's outer works.
July 2.-Shafter renewed the attack upon
Santiago, losing about 1000 in killed and
wounded, and making 1000 Spanish pris
| oners. The Spanish casualties probably
exceeded those Of the Americans.
July 3.-Cerveras fleet destroyed at San
tiago, with great loss Of life.
July 6.-Spanish transport Alfonso XII.
| blown up off Mariel by American gun
July 6.-Hobson, the hero of the Merrimac,
and his comrades exchanged for Spanish
prisoners outside Santiago.
July 7.-President signs Hawaiian annexa-
tian resolution.
July 7.-Admiral Dewey took subig and
1900 prisoners
July n.-CruIser st. Louis brings Admiral
Ceryera and 746 prisoners to Portsmouth,
New Hampshire
July 11.-Admiral SIMPSONS feet lombard
ed Santiago
July 13.-Announced that yellow fever has
broken out In Gen. Shafter's army.
July 4.-Gen. Toral and the Spanish army
surrendered Santiago at p. m.
July 17.-"Old Glory" raised over Santiago
at noon
July 1s.-President issues a proclamation
providing for the government of Santiago.
July 1S.-Seven American vessels lombard
Manzanillo and destroy seven Spanish
ships.
July 21.-Gen. Miles, with 3.415 men on
| transports, conveyed by warships, starts
to take Porto Rico.
July 21.-American gunboats captured Nine
ana sank the Spanish cruiser Jorge Juan.
| July 21.-Gen. Calixto Garcia, commander of
the Cuban army of Eastern Cuba, owing
to discomfort because the American Gov
| ernment had ignored him and his troops
In the surrender Of Santiago, withdrew.
July 21.-News reached this country that
the second expedition to re-enforce Ad.
miral al Dewey had arrived at Cavite.
July 22..Agqinaldo declared himself dicta-
tor Of the Philippines.
July 23.-Another expedition for the Philip
| pine Islands sailed from San Francisco.
July 25.-Gen Miles and $500 men reach
July 26.-Secretary Day, NJ. Cambon,
French ambassador, and his first secre-
tary, NJ. Thiebaut, confer with President
Mckinley in regard to terms of peace.
July 27.-The port Of Ponce, Porto Rico, sur
renders to Capt. Davis. of gunboat Dixie
July 30-News of Gen. Merritt's arrival at
| Cavite received at Washington.
July 30.-Dewey informs the President that
Aguinaldo, the Philippine insurgent chief,
| assumed defiant attitude.
July 31.-The Spanish forces at Cavite made
! sortie during q fierce storm on the
| American troops in the Malate trenches
They were repulsed with heavy loss. Ten
of Gen. Merritt's men were killed and
August 2.-President Mckinley makes pub
| lie the terms of peace offered to Spain by
| the United States.
| August 4.-The monitor Monterey and its
consort BrutuS arrive at Manila
August 4.-Gen. Shafter and his subordi-
mates ask that the fever-stricken army at
| Santiago de Cuba be removed north.
| August 5.-Formal orders issued for the re-
moval Of Gen. Shafter's army to this
country.
August 6.-Spain accepts the terms of peace
| offered by the United States.
| August 6-Guayamo, Porto Rico, captured
by Gen. Haines forces. Three Americans
cornered.
August Spain accepts President McKin-
| ley's peace terms Certain representa-
tions were made regarding Cuba which
were not accepted, however.
August S.-Spaniards at Guantanamo lay
down their arms and surrender to Brig.
Gen. Ewers.
August 9-Gen. Ernst's brigade captured
| Coamo, Porto Rico, after a lively fight, in
| which seven Pennsylvania volunteers were
wounded. Two hundred Spaniards were
taken prisoners.
August 9.-Spaniards attempt to retake the
lighthouse at Cape San Juan, but are re-
pulsed with heavy loss.
August 10.-A protocol covering the peace
terms Of the United States has been
agreed upon by NJ. Cambon, representing
Spain, and President Mckinley.
August 10.-Gen. Schwan's forces defeat
Spanish troops at Mayaguez Porto Rico.
Loss on our side two killed and one
| wounded.
August 11.-Spaln's cabinet formally ap-
proved President McKinley's peace proto-
col and cablegram was sent to NJ Cam
bon authorizing. him to sign In behalf OF
| Spain.
August 12.-M. Cambon, French ambassa-
dor to the United States, signs the proto-
col and a cessation Of hostilities Is Or
dered