Arizona republican., 1898-06-06
CHRONOLOGY
OF THE WAR.
1895.


proclaimed commander of the insur-
gent army.
April 13-Flor Crombet, nsugent
leader, killed at Palmetto.
April 14-Captain General Cajella
displaced by Campos.
May 14-Battle OF Guantanamo; 400
Spanish killed by insurgents under
Gomez.
May 15-Insurgents make important
captures at Bayamo.
May 19-Insurgent leader, Jose
Marti, killed at Dos Rios.
May 21-General Gomez and 100 cav
airy repulsed at Rios.
November 17-General Maceo near
Santa Clara with 1000 men defeats
1880 Spanish troops.
December 23-Campos 10000 mem
meets Gomez $1,000 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 The rebe,'ion up to this
time has cost Spain $50 million dol
lars.
December General Antonio Maceo
killed by treachery.
December 10-General Ruiz Rivera
succeeds Maceo.
1897.
August S-Premier Canoyas OF Spain
assassinated.
October 2-Weyler recalled by the
Saeasta. liberal ministry on pressure
from the United States.
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 missions
February 10-De LONE, Spanish
minister, recalled for unwarranted
personalities rejecting ON President
Mckinley.
February 15-The United States
battleship Maine blown up in Havana
harbor and z66 lives lost
February 17-United States board of
inquiry on the loss of the Maine ap-
pointed.
February 20-Spanish cruiser Viz
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, so million
dollars, for United States coast de-
lenses passed.
March 2S-The president sends a
message with the Maine report to
congress.
April General Fftzhugh Lee and
other consuls leave Cuba.
April 1.-THE pres dent 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-
lions passed by the senate.
April 19-The house passes the in
PREVENTION 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
lister, Polo y Bernabe, asks for his
passports.
April 21-The United States minis
ter, General Woodford, is given his
passports In 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
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 $4,000 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 slocp
Engarcia- 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
de Janerio.
May 1-Spanish fleet at Manila de-
molished by Dewey. Fourteen vessels
Of the enemy destroyed, about 400