The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1898-05-03
CHRONOLOGY OF THE WAR.


February 24-Insurrection breaks |
nut in three OF Cuba's six provinces.
March Fourteen hundred addi-
-ional Spanish troops sent to Cuba
March 3l-General Antonio Maceo
proclaimed commander OF the insur-
gent army April 13. Flor Crombet, in
surgent leader, killed at Palmerito.
April li-Captain General Cajella
by Campos.
May 1i-Battle OF Guantanamo; 400
Spanish killed by insurgents under
Gomez.
May l5-lnsurgents make important
captures at Bayamo.
May 19-insurgent leader, Jose
Marti, killed at Dos Rios.
May 2l-General Gomez and 700 cav
airy repulsed at Rios.
November IL General Macco near
Santa Clara with 1000 men defeats
, 900 Spanish troops.
December 23-Campos 10000 mem
meets Gomez (7,OOO men) and is re-
pulsed with great losses.
1896.
February 1O--Weyler displaces Cap
tain General Campos.
February 19-Eighteen thousand
new Spanish troops sent into the field.
February i7-Weyler issues his re-
concentrate proclamation.
March 1.-The trocha is established.
April ll-Maceo crosses the trocha
with 1900 men and drives back the
Spanish
July 9.i1-Gomez wins the battle OF
Nejasa after fifty hours fighting.
October The rebellion up TO this
time has cost Spain S230, 200, 900.
November 1l-Heavy losses to Span
ish forces in Pinar del Rio,
Dece pbsr 4-General Antonio Ma
Geo killed by treachery.
December 10 General Ruiz Reverb
succeeds Maceo
1897.
August s-premier Canovas of Spain
assassinated.
October 2-Weyler recalled by the
Sagasta Liberal minister on pressure
from United States.
November 27-Decree from govern
ment at Madrid granting autonomy to
Cuba.
January "a United States battle
ship Maine ordered to Havana on a
peaceful mission.
February l0-De LONE, Spanish min
ister, recalled for unwarranted per
sonalities rejecting on President Nc
Kinley.
February l5-The United States bat
tie ship Maine blown up ia Havana
harbor and 2G6 lives lost.
February l7-U nited States board oI
! NT,f
! pointed.
Februrry 2O-Spanish cruiser Viz
caya anchors off Staten Island, NY.
February 22-Spanish board of in
quiry reports the destruction of the
Maine an accident of internal origin.
March 9-Emergency bill, so millior
dollars, for United States coast de
| fenses passed
March 2s-The president sends 4
message with the Maine report to con
gress.
April 9--General Fitzhugh Lee anC
other consuls leave Cuba.
April 1.-THE president sends a mes
sage TO congress recommending armed
Intervention in Cuba.
| April l5-War department orders
regular troops to the coast.
April l6-The intervention resolu
tions passed by the senate.
April l0-The house passes the in
tervention resolution.
April l9-The president prepares al
ultimatum TO Spain demanding th'
evacuation Of Cuba within three days
April 20-The Cuban resolution
signed by the president.
April 2O-The Spanish minister, PolC
| l.. L. IL.
April 21--The United States minis
ter, General Woodford, is given hi
passports in Madrid.
April 2l-Spain's severance OF dip
lomatic relations held TO be a declara
lion OF war.
April 22-North Atlantic squadron
sails TO blockade Cuban ports.
April 22-First shot fred when tn
United States gunboat Nashville cap
lures the coast trader Buena Ventura
April 90 Presidents proclamation
to all nations declaring the blaekad
OF Cuban ports.
April 23-The presidents call issue
for l25. 900 volunteers.
April 2i-Spain's first shot at Unite,
States from masked batteries at Ma
tanzas on the United States gunboa
Foote.
April 90 Presidents proclamation
issues on Spanish vessels in American
ports
April 27-The United States Asiatl
Squadron sails from Hong Kong 1
meet the Spanish ileet at the PHILIP
pine islands
April 27-United States cruiser
New York, Cincinnati and Monito
Puritan silence the batteries at Ma
tanzas.
April 27-Portugal declines TO oil
serve the neutrality law by harborinI
the Spanish heet at Cape Verde.
April 27-The United States Terro
captures the Spanish steamer Guido.
RnRS AND "STICkERS."