The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1898-05-05
CHRONOLOGY OF TIE WAR.
1895

1895
February 2i-1nsurrectiou breaks
out in three Of Cuba's six provinces
March Fourteen hundred adli.
tional Spanish troops sent TO Cuba
March 3l-Gcneral Antonio Maceo
proclaimed commander Of the insur-
| gent army April g. Flor Crombet, in
surgcnt leader, killed at Palmerito.
April 1t-Captain General Caiella
displaced by Campos.
May li-Battlc OF Guantanamo; 400
| Spanish killed by insurgents under
| Gomez
May 15-Insurgents make important
captures at Bayamo.
May i9-lnsurgent leader, Jose
Marti, killed at Dos Rios.
May 21--General Gomez and zoo cav
airy repulsed at Rios
Novemb Der IL Geueral Maceo near
Santa Clara with 900 men defeats
900 Spanish troops
December 23-Campos 10000 men)
meets Gomez 1900 men) and Is re-
pulsed with great losses.
1890.
February iO-Weyler displaces Cap
tain General Campos
February 12-Eighteen thousand
new Spanish troops sent into the field.
February 17-Weyler issues his re-
concentrate proclamation.
March THE trocha is established.
April ii-Maceo crosses the trocha
with 1900 men and drives back the
Spanish
July 9-11-Gomez wins the battle OF
Najasa after fifty hours fighting.
October The rebellion up to this
time has cost Spain $3.50, OO0, 600
Novem Der ll-Heavy losses TO Span.
ish forces in Pinar del Rio
December 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.
Novemb Der 27-Decree from govern
ment at Madrid granting autonomy to
Cuba.
1898.
January 24-U United States battle
ship Maine ordered TO Havana on a
peaceful mission.
February 1O-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 in Havana
harbor and 2GG lives lost.
February l7-United States board OF
n inv on ltn lRgU 1t A.g.
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 o. Emergency bill so million
dollars, for United States coast de-
fcnses 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 1G-Thc Intervention rcsolu.
tions passed by the senate.
April l9-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 Cuban resolutions
signed by the president.
April 2O-The Spanish minister, Polo
y Bernabe asks for his passports.
April 21-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 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- Presidents proclamation
TO all nations declaring the blackade
Of Cuban ports.
April 23-The presidents call issued
for 1925 900 volunteers,
April 2l-Spain's first shot at United
States from masked batteries at Ma
tanzas on the United States gunboat
Foote.
April 20 Presidents proclamation
issues on Spanish vessels in American
ports.
April 27--The United States Asiauc
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 neet 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
Eng8reia,
April 2s-Spanish forts at Cabanas
demolished by guns OF the dag ship
New York
May spanish fleet under Admiral
Montejo defeated and destroyed by
United States squadron, Commodore
Dewey commanding.
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