The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1898-06-09
CHRONOLOGY OF THF WAR.
1s95

March 3l-General Antonio Maceo
proclaimed commander Of the insur
gent army April 10. Flor Crombet, in
surgent leader, billed at Palmerito.
April ll-Captain General Cajella
displaced by campos.
May 1i-Battle OF Guantanamo; 400
Spanish lSille by insurgents under
Gomez.
May 15-Insurgents make important
captures at Bayamo.
May l9-lnsurgent leader, Jose
Marti, killed at Dos Rios.
May 2l-General Gomez and 200 cav
airy rcpulsed at Rios.
November i7-Geueral Maceo near
Santa Clara with 900 men defeats
. 900 Spanish troops.
December 23- Campos 10000 mem
meets Gomez C7,OOO mem and is re-
pulsed with great losses.
1896
February lO-Weyler displaces Cap
tain General Campos.
February 13-Eighteen thousand
new Spanish troops sent .nto the field.
February 7-Weyler issues his re-
concentrate proclamation.
March The trocha is established.
April ll-Maceo crosses the trocha
with 5000 men and drives back the
Spanish.
July oil Gomez wins the battle OF
Nsjasa after fifty hours lighting.
! October The rebellion mp TO this
| time has cost Spain S230, 900, 600.
November 1l-lleavy losses to Span.
| ish forces in Piuar 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.
November 27-Decree from govern
ment at Madrid granting autonomy to
/ Cuba.
1898.
January "a United States battle
ship Maine ordered to Havana on a
peaceful mission.
! February 10-De LONE, Spanish min
ister, recalled for unwarrantcd per-
sonalitics rejecting on President Me-
! Kinley.
February l5-The United States bat.
tie ship Maine blown up in Havana
harbor and gG6 lives lost.
February l7-U nited States board OF
inquiry on the loss of the Maine APP
pointed.
Februrry e0-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-
fenses passed.
March 2s-The president sends a
message with the Maine report to con-
gress.
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 10 the coast.
April 1G-The Intervention resolu-
tions passed by the senate.
April l9-The house passes the in
tervention resolution.
April l0-The president prepares an
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evacuation OF Cuba within three days.
April 2O-The Cuban resolutions
signed by the president.
April 2O-The Spanish minister, Polo
Y 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 declara
Iion Of war.
April 92-North Atlantic squadron
sails 20 blockade Cuban ports.
April 22-I'irst shot fred when the
d United States gunboat Nashville cap
lures the coast trader Buena Ventura
April % Presidents proclamation
% to all nations declaring the blackad'
. OF Cuban ports.
0 April 23-The presidents call issueC
for 1875 900 volunteers.
April 24-Spain's first shot at United
States from masked batteries at Ma
p tanzas on the United States gunboa
e Foote.
e April 90 Presidents proclamation
issues on Spanish vessels in American
ports.
70 April 27-The United States Asiah
, Squadron sails from Hong Kong l.
+ meet the Spanish neet at the Phill
9 pine islands.
April 27-United States cruiser
New York, Cincinnati and Monito
Puritan silence the batteries at Ma
thnZas.
- April 27-Portugal declines to oil
N serve the neutrality law by harborin
4, the Spanish feet at Cape Verde.
April 27-The United States Terro
"a N.a f.nfdn
April 2S-United States gun boa
Is Newport captured the Spanish sloo
II Engareia.
= April 2s-Spanish forts at Cabana
demolished by guns OF the flag shi
New York.
May / Spanish feet under Admirl
+, Montejo defeated and destroyed b
United States squadron, COmmOdor
- Dewey commanding.