The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1898-05-06
CHRONOLOGY OF THE WAR.

February 2l-Insurrection breaks
out in three OF Cuba's 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 49, Flor Crombet, in
surgent leader, killed at Palmerito.
April li-Captain General Caiella
displaced by Campos.
May i4-Battle Of Guantanamo; 400
Spanish killed by insurgents under
| Gomez
May l5-Insurgents make important
captures at Bayamo.
May l9-Insurgent leader, Jose
Mart, killed at Dos Rios.
May 21-General Gomez and zoo cav
airy repulsed at Rios.
November H. General Macco near
Santa Clara with 1000 men defeats
900 Spanish troops.
December 23-Campos 10000 mem
meets Gomez (7,O0O men) and is re.
pulsed with great lcsses.
1896.
February lO-Weyler displaces Cap
tain General Campos.
February 12-Eighteen thousand
new Spanish troops sent into the field.
February l7-Weyler issues his re-
concentrate proclamation.
March 1.-The trocha is established.
April 1l-Maceo crosses the trocha
with 5000 men and drives back tho
Spanish.
July 9-1l-Gomez wins the battle OF
| Najasa after fifty hours fighting.
October THE rebellion up to this
| time has cost Spain 100000, 900.
! November 1l-Heavy losses 10 Span
| ish forces in Pinar del Rio.
| December 4-General Antonio Ma
Geo killed by treachery.
| Decem Der 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 24-United States battle
ship Maine ordered TO Havana on a
peaceful mission.
February l0-De LONE, Spanish min.
ister, recalled for unwarranted per.
sonalities rejecting on President Nc.
! Kinley.
February i5-The United States bat
tie ship Maine blown up in Havana
! harbor and 266 lives lost.
February l7--United States board oil
inquiry on the loss OF the Maine ap
pointed.
Februrry 2O-Spanish cruiser Viz
caya anchors of. Staten Island, NY.
February 22-Spanish board Of in
quiry reports the destruction OF the
| Maine an accident Of internal origin,
March g. Emergency bill, 80 million
dollars, for United States coast de
fenses passed.
March 9s-The president sends q
message with the Maine report TO con
gress
April 0-General Fitzhugh Lee ant
other eonsuls leave Cuba.
April 1.-THE president sends mes
sage to congress recommending armed
Intervention in Cuba.
April l5-Wdr department orders
regular troops TO the coast
April lG-The Intervention resolu
tions passed by the senate.
April l9-The house passes the in
tervention resolution.
April lg-The president prepares al
ultimatum to Spain demanding The
evacuation Of Cuba within three days
April 20-The Cuban resolution
signed by the president.
April 20-The Spanish minister, Pole
y Bernabe asks for his passports.
April 2l-rhe United States minis
ter, General Woodford, is given hi
passports in Madrid.
April 2l-Spain's severance OF dip
lomatic relations held to be declara
tion of war.
April 22-North Atlantic squadron
sails to blockade Cuban ports.
April 22-First shot fred when tn,
United States gunboat Nashville cap
lures the coast trader Buena Ventura
April % Presidents proclamation
10 all nations declaring the biackad'
OF Cuban ports.
April 23-The presidents call issue'
for l25 900 volunteers.
April 24--Spain's first shot at Unite'
States from masked batteries at Ma
tanzas on the United States gunboa
Foote.
April 2G Presidents proclamation
issues on Spanish vessels in American
ports
April e7-The United States Asiah
Squadron sails from Hong Kong 4
meet the Spanish feet at the Philip
pine islands.
April 27-United STAGES cruiser
New York, Cincinnati and Monito
Puritan silence the batteries at Ma
tanzas.
April 27-Portugal declines 10 oh
serve the neutrality law by harborinl
the Spanish fleet at Cape Verde.
April 27-The United States Terro
captures the Spanish steamer Guido.
April 2s-United States gun boa
Newport captured the Spanish sloo
Engarcia.
April es-Spanish forts at Cabana
demolished by guns Of the dag shi
New York.
May Spanish heet under Admirs
Monteio defeated and destroyed b
United States squadron, Commodor