Arizona republican., 1898-06-27
CHRONOLOGY
 OF THE WAR.

01dICn IT tional troops sent to Cuba
 March 31-GeneraI Antonio Maceo proclaimed commander of the insur- gent army.
 April 13-Flor Crombet, insugent leader, killed at Palmerito.
 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 700 cav airy repulsed at Rios.
 November 17-General Maceo near Santa Clara with 1900 men defeats 2,800 Spanish troops.
 December 23-Campos Q0,000 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 rnto the field
  coucentrado 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 oi Najasa after fifty hours fighting.
 October 1-The rebe.'ion up to this time has cost Spain 250 million dol lars.
 December 4-General Antonio Maceo killed by treachery.
 December 1O-General Ruiz Rivera succeeds Maceo.
 1897.
 August S-Prem1er Canovas of Spain assassinated.
 October 2-Weyler recalled by the Sagasta liberal ministry on pressure from the United States.
 November 27-Decree from govern ment at Madrid granting autonomy to Cuba
 1898.
 January 24-United States battle ship Maine ordered to Havana on a peaceful mission.
 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 2O-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, 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 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 u1timatum to Spain de manding 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 hIa passports Tn Madrid. Spain's sever ance of diplomatic relations held to 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 cail issued for 125,OO0 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 2S-United States gunboai Newport captured the Spanish slooI 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 R.C de Janerio.
 May Spanish fleet at Manila de molished by Dewey. Fourteen vessel: of the enemy destroyed, about 40t killed and several hundred injured Not an American vessel injured nol