Arizona republican., 1898-08-01
CHRONOLOGY
 OF THE WAR.

f March 1-Fourteen hundred addi tional troops sent to Cuba March 31-General Antonio Maceo proclaimed commander of the insur- gent army.
 April 13-Flor Crombet, insurgent { leader, killed at Palmerito.
 April 14-Captain General Cajella displaced by Campos.
 May 14-Battle Of Guantanamo; 400 l Spanish killed by insurgents under Gomez.
 l May 15-Insurgents make important captures at Bayamo. l May 19-Insurgent leader, Jose 1 Marti, killed at Dos Rios.
 May 21-General Gomez and 700 cav airy repulsed at Rios. 1 November 17-General Maceo near Santa Clara with 1900 men defeats 1 2,80O Spanish troops.
 December 23-Campos (10000 men) meets Gomez (7,000 men) and is re- pulsed with great losses.
 1896.
 February 10-Weyler displaces Cap 1 tain General Campos.
 February 12-Eighteen thousand new Spanish troops sent into the field.
 February 17-Weyler issues his re- concentrado proclamations. March 1-The uocha is established. | April 11-Maceo crosses the trocna with 5000 men and drives back the Spanish.
 July 9-11-Gomez wins the battle of Najasa after fifty hours fighting. October 1-The rebel3ion up to this time has cost Spain 25O million dol lars.
 December 4-Gene1ai Antonio Maceo killed by treachery. l December 10--General Ruiz Rivera succeeds Maceo. 1897. 1 August S-Premier Canovas Of Spain assassinated. i October 2-Weyler recalled by the Sagasta liberal ministry on pressure from the United States.
 November 27-Decree from govern i ment at Madrid granting autonomy to Cuba
 January 24-United States battle i ship Maine ordered to Havana on peaceful mission. February 10-De LOme, Spanish minister, recalled for unwarranted personalities rejecting on President Mckinley.
 February 15-The United States battleship Maine blown up in Havana harbor and 266 lives lost | February 17-United States board Of inquiry on the loss of the Maine ap- pointed.
 February 20-Spanish cruiser Viz i caya anchors off Staten Island, N. Y. February 22-Spanish board of in quiry reports the destruction of the Maine an accident of internal origin. March 9-Emergency bill, 50 million dollars, for United States coast de- lenses passed.
 March 2S-The president sends a message with the Maine report to congress.
 April 9-General Fitzhugh Lee and other consuls leave Cuba. April 1.-The president sends a mes- sage to congress recommending armed intervention in Cuba.
 April 15-War department orders regular troops to the coast
 April 16-The intervention resolu- tions passed by the senate
 April 19-The house passes the in- tervention resolutions. The president prepares an ultimatum to Spain de- manding the evacuation of Cuba with in three days.
 April 20-The Cuban resolutions signed by the president Spanish min ister, Polo Bernabe, asks for hls passports.
 April 21-The United States minis | ter, General Woodford, is given his passports Tn Madrid. Spains sever ance of diplomatic relations held to be a declaration of war.
 April 22-North Atlantic squadron sails to blockade Cuban ports First shot fired, when the United Stkes gunboat Nashville captured the Span 1 ish coast trader Buena Ventura. Pres ident's proclamation to all nations de- claring the blockade of Cuban ports
 April 23-The presidents call issued l for 125, ,O0O volunteers
 April 24-Spain's first shot at United States from masked batteries at Ma L tanzas on the United gunbcat Fcote Capture of the Catalina by the Detroit. the Candida by the Wilmington and the Saturnina by the Winona.
 April 25-CongreSs declares war. Secretary Of Slate Sherman resigns Mangrove captures the Panama
 EhPAi II GO lOoluCAl issues on Spanish vessels in United | States ports. William R. Day made secretary of state.
 April 27-Asiatic squadron sails from Hong Kong to meet the Spanish fleet at the Philippine islands. United States cruisers New York, Cincinnati and monitor Puritan silence the bat teries at Matanzas. The United States t monitor Terror captured the Spanish steamer Guido
 April 28.-United States gunbcat Newport captured the Spanish sloop Spanish forts at Cabannas demolished by guns of the flagship New York.
 April 30-The Paris in New York and the Oregon and Mariettaat Rio r. de Janerio.
 May Spanish fleet at Manila de- molished by Dewey. Fourteen vessels of the enemy destroyed. about 400 killed and several hundred injured.