The evening times., 1898-07-18
BRIEF HIsThk OF TIE WAR

THH -
January ls-House Of Representatives
defeats an attempt to force recognition
of Cuban belliglrepey.
January 2+Batdeship Maine ordered to
Havana.
February. .1o-Be Eome.. resignation ac-
cepted In Madrid.
February l5-UnIted States battleship
i,,IS Maine blown UP II Havana; 2ss sailors
February 23-United States cruiser
Montgomery ordered to Havana.
March s-Fifty million dollars voted by
Congress for the impending war.
March R-6pain offers Cuba nominal
independence.
March Ex-senator Proctor tells of hor-
rors on the island. Cubans refuse Spain's
offer.
March 10-Board of Inquiry reports that
mine.
March 25-Commodore Schley placed in
command of the flying squadron.
March 2S-President Mckinley sends re-
port of the Board Of Inquiry and a mes
sage to Congress without comment.
Spain's report says that the Maine ex-
plosion was internal Congress objects to
delay.
March 2S-Resolutions declaring war and
recognizing Cuban independence intro
| duced in both houses of Congress and re-
| ferred to committees.
April 3-The Pope appeals to Spain to
| compromise.
April S-Powers bring pressure to bear
| upon Spain. but the government refuses
to give up Cuba.
April Seen. Lee and Americans leave
Cuba.
April l1-President Mckinley sends his
Cuban message to Congress.
April l9-Congress adopts ojint resolu-
tion authorizing immediate armed inter-
! vention in Cuba.
April 2o-President Mckinley signs the
joint resolution and sends an ultimatum
to Spain. The Spanish minister at WASH
| ington asks for his passports.
| April 21-Spain refuses to receive the
! ultimatum and gives Minister Woodford
| his passports
| April H-War begins with the capture
by the Nashville of the Spanish steamer
| Buena Ventura and the New York's cap
ture of the Pedro. Havana harbor de-
ciared in a state OF blockade.
| April 2S-President Mckinley issues a
call for l25.OO0 volunteers.
April 2ESpain's decree favoring pri-
| watering regarded as a declaration of
| war.
| April 25-President Mckinley asks and
| secures declaration of war. States are
1
| Sherman resigns. American squadron
| sails from Hong Kong
April 2G-Eng!and proclaims her neu-
| trality and contends that war began
when Spain gave Woodford his passports.
April 27-Matanzas fortifcations she'll
ed and silenced by the New York, Gin
cinnati and Puritan.
April 29-Spanish fleet leaves Cane
| Verde Islands. Cruiser New York ST.
| lences forts at Cabanas Cuba
April 3o-Auxiliary' cruiser Yale safe in
| New York harbor
May 1-Commcdore Dewey destroys the
| Spanish fleet at Manila Bay Twelve
| Spanish vessels were burned or sunk.
| Spanish loss according to Spanish esti-
| mate: Killed 500; wounded. 7OG No Amer
| lean vessels were destroyed. and no
| Americans were killed; eight were
wounded
May 4-Riottng in Spain. Rear Admiral
| Sampson sails from Key West Battle
ship Oregon and the Marietta sail from
| Rio Janeiro.
May 5-Arms for Cubans landed by tug
Leyden. assisted by the Wilmington
May S-The American Government de-
cides to send q large force to invade Gu
| ba and 5000 troops to assist Dewey.
May I-Cruiser Charleston ordered to
| Manila. Major Cen Merritt appointed
military governor of the Philippines.
May 12-Spanish Cape Verde squadron
| arrives at Martinique. Torpedo boa,
Winslow and gunboats Wilmington and
| Hudson attacked by Spanish gunboa,s
| and batteries in Cardenas Bay. Ensign
| Bagley and four Of the Winslow's crew
were killed, and the town of Cardenas
| was shelled. First American loss of the
war.
May 13-Rear Admiral Sampson reports
that he bombarded the forts at San Juan.
Porto Rico. Two American sailors were
killed and six were wounded. Commodore
| Schley's flying squadron sailed from
| Hampton Roads.
May H-Report of skirmsh at Cienfue-
gos during which the cable was cut A
sailor on the Marblehead was killed and
FIVE others were wounded. Spanish feet
reported at Curacao, off Venezuelan
coast.
May 1S-Spanish cabinet resigns Span
ish feet leaves Curacao.
May I-Spanish fleet at Jamaica. New
| Spanish cabinet formed.
May 1s-Cruiser Charleston sails for
Manila.
May 1s-Sampson and Schley at Key
West. Cervera at Santiago. Battleship
Oregon joins the cruiser Harvard OF
Martinique.
May 21-American fleets sail from Key
West. Monitor Monterey ordered to Ma
Mia. Merritt starts westward from New
York
May 2LSantiago cable cut by cruiser
ST. Louis and tug Wampatuck.
May 2-President Mckinley calls for
5000 more volunteers. Transports City
of Pekin. City of Sydney and Australia
start for Manila with 2500 troops.
May 27-Cabinet votes to adopt Presi-
dent McKinley's suggestion to invade
Cuba ia once. Governor General Merit:
at San Francisco.
May 30-Commodore Schley reports that
he has seen Spanish warships in San
tiago harbor British steamer Restormel
captured by the St. Paul.
June 1-Bombardment of Santiago de
Cuba Notifications by combined forces of
| Sampson and Schley. Great damage to
Spanish forts. Spanish cruiser Cristobal
Colon damaged by a shell from United
States battleship Massachusetts,.
June 3-United States collier Merrimac
sunk at entrance to Santiago bay by Ma
| val Constructor r. P. Hobson and seven
men, who were captured by Spaniards
Last cable from Cuba cut by United
States steamer Dolphin.
June Limited States gunboat Marietta
| which accompanied battleship Oregon from
Co Erop arrix-a