The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1898-06-14
CHRONOLOGY OF THF WAR
1895

February 24-Insurrection breaks
out in three of Cubas six provinces.
March Fourteen hundred addi-
tioual Spanish troops sent to Cuba
March 3l-General Antonio Maceo
proclaimed commander OF the insur-
gent army April ia. Flor Crombet, in
surgent leader, killed at Palmerito.
April li-Captain General Cajella
displaced by Campos.
May 14-Battle Of Guantanamo; 400
Spanish kille by insurgents under
Gomez.
MAY 15-Insurgents make important
captures at Bayamo.
May l0-Insurgent leader, Jose
Marti, killed at Dos Rios.
May 2i--General Gomez and ZOO cav
airy repulsed at Rios.
Novemb bcr IL General Maceo near
Santa Clara with 900 men defeats
2 900 Spanish troops.
Decem Der 23-Campos 10000 mem
meets Gomez (7,O0O mem and is re-
pulsed with great losses
1896.
February l0-Weylcr displaces Cap
tain General Campos.
February 12-Eighteen thousand
new Spanish troops sent into the field.
February 17-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 g.l1-Gomez wins the battle OF
Najasa after Gfty hours fighting
October The rebellion up TO this
time has cost Spain $3.50 900, 600
November ll-lIeavy losses TO Span
ish forces in Pinar del Rio.
December 4-General Antonio Ma
Geo killed by treachery.
Decem ber 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.
January "a United States battle
ship Maine ordered TO Havana on a
peaceful mission.
February lO-De LONE, Spanish min
ister, recalled for unwarranted per-
sonalities rejecting on President Nc
Kinlcy.
February l5-The United States bat.
tie ship Maine blown up in Havana
harbor and 2GG lives lost.
February IL United States board Of
inquiry on the loss of the Maine APP
pointed.
Februrry 2O-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 mes
sage TO congress recommending armed
Intervention in Cuba.
April l5-War department orders
regular troops TO the coast.
April 1G-The intervention resolu-
tions passed by the senate.
April 19-The house passes the in
tervention resolution.
April l9-The president prepares an
ultimatum to Spain demanding the
evacuation OF Cuba within three days.
April 2O-The Cuban resolutions
signed by the president.
April 2O-The Spanish minister, Polo
Bernabe asks for his passports.
April 2l-The United States minis.
ter, General Woodford, is given his
passports in Madrid.
April II Spain's severance OF dip
lomatic relations held TO be a declara'
tion of war
April 22-North Atlantic squadron
sails to blockade Cuban ports.
April 22-First shot fred when the
United States gunboat Nashville cap
lures the coast trader Buena Ventura
April % Presidents proclamation
to all nations declaring the blackade
OF Cuban ports.
April 23-The presidents call issued
for i25 900 volunteers.
April 2i-Spain's first shot at United
States from masked batteries at Ma
tanzas on the United States gunboa'
| Foote.
April 90 Presidents proclamation
issues on Spanish vessels in American
ports.
April 27-The United States Asiati'
| Squadron sails from Hong Kong tC
meet the Spanish feet at the Philip
pine islands.
April 27-United States cruisers
New York, Cincinnati and Monitor
Puritan silence the batteries at Ma
tanzas.
April 27-Portugal declines TO Oh
serve the neutrality law by harborinl
the Spanish heet at Cape Verde.
April 27-The United States Terro
captures the Spanish steamer Guido.
April 2s-United States gan boa
Newport captured the Spanish slool
Engarcia.
April 2s-Spanish forts at Cabana
demolished by guns OF the flag shil
| New York.
May Spanish fleet under Admira
Montejo defeated and destroyed b!
United States squadron, Commodorl
| Dewey commanding.