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ment at Madrid granting autonomy to

ment at Madrid granting autonomy to l Cuba
 January 24-United States battle | ship Maine ordered to Havana. on peaceful mission. February 10-De Lome, Spanish minister, recalled for unWafranted 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.
 l February 203Spanish cruiser Viz caya anchors off Staten Island, N. Y. | February 22-Spanish beard 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. l April 16-The intervention resolu- tions passed by the senate.
 April 19-The house passcs 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 BeGnabe, asks for h.s passports.
 1 April 21-The United States minis ter, General Woodford, is given hle passports Tn Madrid. Spain's sever- ance of diplomatic relations held tc be declaration of war; April 22-North Atlantic squadron sails to blockade Cuban ports. First shot fired, when the United States gunboat Nashville captured the Span 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 for 125,O00 volunteers
 
 ! States from masked batteries at Ma tanzas on the United gunbcat Foote. Capture of the Catalina by the Detroit the Candida by the Wilmington and the Saturnina by the Winona. l April 25-Congress declares war Secretary of State Sherman resigns Mangrove captures the Panama.
 April 26-President's proclamation l ich in, TTni Tod States ports. William R. Day made secretary of stata
 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 gunbcat Newport captured the Spanish srooI Engarcia Spanish forts at Cabanna. demolished by guns of the flagship New York
 April 30-The Paris in New Yorl and the Oregon and Mariettaat RiG de Janerio.
 May Spanish fleet at Manila de molished by Dewey. Fourteen vessel of the enemy destroyed, about 40' killed and several hundred injured Not an American vessel injured no an American life lost, and only si, men slightly injured. Admiral Mon tejo of the Spanish fleet admits tota defeat
 May 2-Congress appropriated $35, 720,945 for the army of invasion. Ma val bill for thirty-five new warship 3 sent to the president for signature l Martial law proclaimed in Madrid Eight transports ordered to Tamp . for army of invasion. Dewey hold the Philippines : May 3-President names major an 3 brigadier-generals of volunteers. Seri ous riots in Spanish provinces. Ore , gon Limited States battleship) saile from Rio Janerio. May Admiral Sampson's flee . sails under sealed orders. Hawa tenders islands to the United State for war uses. The Arizona troop
 leave Prescott for the front.
 May 5-The French liner Lafayett captured and turned loose. S May 7-Commodore Dewey's repol
 on battle of Manila received. l. May 9-Congress passes vote ( thanks to Dewey and makes him req o admiral.
 .- May 1O.-Cape Verde squadron II
 ported anchored at Cadiz. Oregon It Bahia.
 May 11.-Troops breaking camp a Chickamauga preparatory for tran
 portation south Spanish torpedo DO; 70 destroyer Destructor blown up at Gl ,r raltar.
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