The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1898-06-10
CHRONOLOGY OF THF WAR.
1895

1898
February 24-Insurrection breaks
out in three Of Cuba's six provinces.
March Fourteen hundred addi-
tionai Spanish troops sent to Cuba
March 3i--General Antonio Maceo
proclaimed commander of the insur-
gent army April 10. Flor Crombet, in
surgent leader, killed at Palmerito.
April l4-Captain General Cajella
displaced by Campos.
May 14-Battle OF Guantanamo; 400
Spanish kille by insurgents under
Gomez.
May i5-Insurgents make important
captures at Bayamo.
May i9-Insurgent leader, Jose
Marti, killed at Dos Rios.
May 21-General Gomez and 700 cav
airy repulsed at Rios.
November IL General Maceo near
Santa Clara with 1000 mer defeats
1000 Spanish troops.
December 23-Campos 10000 mem
meets GOmez t7,OO0 men) and is re-
pulsed with great losses.
1896.
February 1O-Weyler displaces Cap
tain General Campos
February 12-Eighteen thousand
new Spanish troops sent into the field.
February l7-Weyler issues his re-
concentrate proclamation.
March The trocha is established.
April l1-Maeeo crosses the trocha
with 1900 men and drives back the
Spanish.
July g-l1-Gomez wins the battle Of
Najasa after fifty hours fighting.
October The rebellion IN to this
time has cost Spain $4,000 1Or
November l1-HeavY losses 10 Span
ish forces in Pinar del Ru
December 4-General Antonio Ma
eco killed by treachery.
December 10 General Ruiz Reverb
succeeds Maceo.
1897.
August s-Premier Canovas Of Spain
Gssassinated.
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.
1898.
January 24-United States battle
ship Maine ordered to Havana on a
peaceful mission.
February l0-De LONE, Spanish min
lister, recalled for unwarranted per-
sOnalities rejecting on President Nc
Kinley.
February l5-The United States bat.
4 l. T.. III
harbor and 26G lives lost.
February l7--Unite States board OF
inquiry ON the loss of the Maine ap-
pointed.
Februrry 2O-Spanish cruiser Viz
caya anchors off Staten Island, NY.
February 22-Spanish board of in.
quirv reports the destruction of the
Maine an accident Of internal origin.
March 9-Emergency bill, so million
dollars, for United States coast de-
fenses passed.
March 2s-The president sends a
message with the Maine report to con
gress.
April 0-General Fitzhugh Lee and
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 16-The Intervention resolu.
tions passed by tho senate.
April 10-The house passes the in
tervention resolution.
April l9--The president prepares an
ultimatum TO Spain demanding the
evacuation Of Cuba within three days.
April 20-The Cuben resolutions
signed by the president.
April 2O-The Spanish minister, Polo
Bernabe asks for his passports.
April 2l-The United States minis
ter, General Woodford, is given his
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 the
United States gunboat Nashville cap
lures the coast trader Buena Ventura.
April 22-President's proclamation
TO all nations declaring the blackade
of Cuban ports.
April 23-The presidents call issued
for l25, 900 volunteers.
n plil pun htnN nAiOb nv ChAANA
States from masked batteries at Ma
tanzas on the United States gunboat
Foote.
April &C. Presidents proclamation
issues on Spanish vessels in American
ports.
April 27-The United States AsiatIc
Squadron sails from Hong Kong TO
meet the Spanish fleet at the Philip
pine islands.
April 27-United States cruisers
New York, Cincinnati and Monitor
Puritan silence the batteries at Ma.
tAnzas.
April 27-Portugal declines TO OBJ
serve the neutrality law by harboring
the Spanish feet at Cape Verde.
April 27-The United States Terror
captures the Spanish steamer Guido.
April 2s-United States gun boat
Newport captured the Spanish sloop
Engarcia.
April 2s-Spanish forts at Cabanas
demolished by guns of the flag ship
New York
May spanish feet under Admiral
Montejo defeated and destroyed by
United States squadron, Commodore
Dewey commanding.
The soma Of Herman will give a pic-