Arizona republican., 1898-05-23
CHRONOLOGY OF THE WAR.
1895.

out in three Of Cuba'S six provinces.
 March 1-Fourteen hundred add tional troops sent to Cuba.
 March 31-General Antonio Mace proclaimed commander of the insur gent army.
 April 13-Flor Crombet, insurgen leader, killed at Palmerito.
 April 14-Captain General Cajell displaced by Campos.
 May 14-Battle of Guantanamo; 40 Spanish killed by insurgents unde Gomez.
 May 15-Insurgents make importan captures at Bayamo.
 May 19-Insurgent leader, Jos Marti, killed at Dos Rios.
 May 21-General Gomez and 700 cav airy repulsed at Rios.
 November 17-General Maceo neal Santa Clara with 1900 men defeats 2,800 Spanish troops.
 December 23-Campos 0O,000 men) meets Gomez (7,000 mem and is re- pulsed with great losses.
 1896.
 February 10-Weyler displaces Cap tain General Campos.
 February 12-Eighteen thousand new Spanish troops sent into the field.
 February 17-Weyler issues his re- concentrate proclamations.
 March 1-The trocha is established.
 April 11-Maceo crosses the trocha with 5000 men and drives back the Spanish.
 July 9-11-Gomez wins the battle of Najasa after fifty hours fighting.
 October 1-The rebellion up to this time has cost Spain 250 million dol lars.
 December 4-General Antonio Maceo killed by treachery.
 December 10-General Ruiz Rivera succeeds Maceo.
 1897.
 August S-Premier Canovas of Spain assassinated.
 October 2-Weyler recalled by the Sagasta liberal ministry on pressure from the United States. s
 November 27-Decree from govern ment at Madrid granting autonomy to Cuba-
 January 24-United States battle ship Maine ordered to Havana on a peaceful mission, 4 ssa a., February 10-De Lome, Spanish minister, recalled for unwarranted personalities refecting 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 caya anchors of 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-Genera1 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 handing the evacuation of Cuba with in three days.
 April 2O-The Cuban resolutions signed by the president. Spanish min- ister, Polo y Bernabe, asks for his passports.
 April 21-The United States minis ter, General Woodford, is given hls passports ID Madrid. Spain's sever ance of diplomatic relations held to be a declaration of war.
 April 22-North Atlantic squadron sails to blockade Cuban ports. First gunboat Nashville captured the Span ident's proclamation to all nations de- claring the blockade of Cuban ports. April 23-The presidents call issued for 125,000 volunteers.
 April 24-Spain's first shot at United States from masked batteries at Ma tanzas on the United gunboat Foote 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 State Sherman resigns. Mangrove captures the Panama
 April 26-President's proclamation 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 monitor Terror captured the Spanish steamer Guido
 April 28.-United States gunboat Newport captured the Spanish sloop Engarcia- Spanish forts at Cabannas demolished by guns of the flagship New York