Arizona republican., 1898-07-11
1 for unwaIranted
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 March 28-Th3 D resident sends a message with tn Maine report to congress.
 April 9EGensc: Il l1'itzhugh Lee and other consuls kek! ve Cuba April 11-ThekSl res ident sends mes- sage to congress rect ,mmending armed intervention incC ubas April 15-War department orders regular troops to tn coast. April 16-The int ervention resolu- tions passed byG le senate. | April 19-The hoa lse passes the in- tervention resodnt iosls- The president prepares an ulti- nat Mm to Spain de- handing the evaC uat ion of Cuba with in three days.
 1 April 2O-The Cuban resolutions signed by the prsa idfsnt. Spanish min ister, Polo Bes aibe, asks for his passports.
 April 21-TheY United States minis ter, General Wst dford, is given his passports In Ma 1rid- Spain's sever ance of diplonas ic relations held to be a declaration of war.
 April 22-Noldf Atlantic squadron sails to blockade Cuban ports. First shot fired. when ttre United States gunboat Nashville c aptured the Span ish coast tradeHf ue ma Ventura. Pres ident,s proclamat n to all nations de- claring the block .d @ of Cuban ports. 7, April 23-The Pr sident's call issued for 125, 900 volun1 ers
 April 24-Spains first shot at United
 States from mask d batteries at Ma
 tanxas on the Uli ited gunboat Foote. Capture of the Cal dina by the Detroit,
 the Candida. byiE le Wilmington and , | i&i C,&,r h~1 -h~ l April 25-ConH esa declares war. Secretary of Stat Sherman resigns. Mangrove captures the Panama.
 April -26-Praaid t's proclamation ] issues con Spanizt vessels in United . States ports. WEl iam R. Day made
 secretary of StadA
 AFxil 27-Asiatic squadron sails
 from Hong Kong D meet the Spanish 7 fleet at the Philip inc islands. United I States cruisers New York, Cincinnati } and monitor Puritan silence the bat I tEzies at MataHzE- The United States
 monitor TeTror4n5 blurred the Spanish steamer Guido
 April 2S.-UpNe1 States gunboat
 Newport captureA the Spanish slocp Engarcia- Spanish forts at Cabannas demolished by-E1ns of the flagship Il New York.
 April S0-Thei Paris in New York and the OregoG and MarieEtaat Rio : de Janerio.
 May 1-SpanEa fleet at Manila de-
 molished by Dewey. Fourteen vessels
 of the enemy}s6 stroyed. about 400 killed and several hundred injured. Not an Ameriwl vessel injured nor an American lie lost, and only six men slightly injured. Admiral Mon tejo of the Spanish feet admits total defeat
 : May 2-Congrass appropriated S35,- 1909 for the-zTmy of invasion. Ma val bill for thirty-five new warships sent to the president for signature. Martial law proclaimed :n Madrid. D Eight transports ordered to Tampa for army of invasion. Dewey holds 3 the Philippines
 brigadier- generals of volunteers Seri- ous riots in Sx 1ish provinces. Ore
 gon Omitted States battleship) sailed
 from Rio JaneriD.
 May 4-Admira1 Sampson's fleet
 sails under sealed orders. Hawaii
 tenders islands to the United States
 for war uses. The Arizo1a troops leave Prescott for the front.
 May 1.-The French liner Lafayette
 captured and turned loose. May 7+Gommoinore Dewey's report on battle of Manila received.
 May 9-COngress passes vote of
 thanks to Dewey and makes him rear admiral.
 May 1O.-Cape, Verde squadron re-
 ported anchored at Cadiz. Oregon at Bahia.
 May 11.-Troops breaking camp at , Chickamauga preparatory for trans
 portation south Spanish torpedo boat , destroyer .Destructor blown up at Gib- raltar.
 May 12.-News was received of ar : rival of Spanish Cape Verde squad
 ron at Martinique. West Indies. The gunboat Wilmington, the torpedo boat
 Winslow and the auxiliary gunboat
 Hudson, while in Cardenas bay, at
 tackled by Spanish baftc~ies and gun boats. Ensign Bagley &ni four of the WinsloM's crew killed, and town of Cardenas was sheiled. .7An engagement reported at CienfueEos, in which the Americans were safrsIe have been repuised.
 May 13-Rear Admiral Sampson re- ported that he had bombarded the forts at: San Juan, Porto Rico, with a loss of two men killed and six wound ed, the American squadron being un- injured. The flying squadron, under Commodore Schley. sailed under se- cret orders from Hampton Roads.
 May 14.-The Spanish fleet was re- ported at Curacoa, off the Venezuelan coast, and Admiral Sampson was off Puerto Plata, Hayti. american re- port of Cienfuegos affair reached Key 1 West and told of the killing of Reagan l a marine on the MarbIenead, and the 1 wounding of five others,Fxhile cutting 1 the cable in Cienfuegos, bay, in small | open boats, under hot~Spanish fire. | The Marblehead, Nashville and Win 1 dom took part, raging tho Spanish de- lenses there.
 May 15-The flying squadron l reached Charlestons s. c. Rear Ad- | mir Tf--- .rt i