The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1919-07-05
REMEMBERED
YESTERDAY, JULY 4

when we celebrated tn Fourth
Yesterday we looked back upon five
foreign wars which the United states
has waged since the birth # ne ma
tion. all of them crowned with victory
N our flag. The sixth war in which
we we're engaged was the Civil war.
which was entirely our W affair
In the order of their succession
these five wars with foreign countries
were: The war for independence, the
war of 1912. the Mexican war, the
spanish-American war. and the great
war of deliverance against Germany
and her allies.
The war for independence was
fought against Great Britain. lasting
from April, 1775 to April, 1888, eight
years. In this period there were just
six years of actual fighting. as Corn
wallis surrendered a. Yorktown in
the final battle of the wal in October.
1881.
1t took two years of negotiations
thereafter to conclude a peace. and
the treaty of peace by which the
British acknowledged the indepen-
dence of the United Sites vas lot
signed until Septembo-. 1885.
The war of 1912 was Jul second
war for independence, caused by
British interference with American
shipping, impressment of American
seamen to serve in the British navy.
and by British war vessels firing upon
our ships.
War was declared in June of 1912
aud lasted until September. 1914. The
treaty Of peace was signed at Client,
Belgium, on December "a of that year.
but before the news of that event had
reached the United States a battie
was fought, in January, at New Or
leans. That, however. could not be
regarded as a violation of the peace
pact, and the peace then sealed with
England has since endured. She was
quite satisfied that both on land and
sea the Americans could hold their
own.
The Mexican war was declared in
Nav, 1886, and arose from disputes
over the boundary lines OF Mexico
and Texas. The latter state had re-
volted successfully against Mexico,
and after a brief and stormy exist
ence as an Independent republic had
become a state of the Union in De-
cember, 1916.
The war was concluded by the
capture of the City of Mexico by the
United States forces in September of
1S47. The treaty of peace was signed
the following February. By it's terms
Mexico abandoned all its claims to
Texas and ceded to the United States
that stretch of territory now occupied
by the states of Nevada. California.
Utah. Arizona, New Mexico, and part
of Colorado and Wyoming.
The Spanish-American was was
precipitated by the blowing up of the
battleship Maine in the harbor of
Havana. February Is, 1898. For a
long time prior to that act the United
States had vainly protested to Spain
against the cruel oppression of the
Cuban people and her infringement of
the rights of Americans resident in
that island. Cuba desired it's free
dom, and our wal was undertaken to
remove the last vestige of Spanish
rule from this continent and deliver
Cuba from bondage.
War was declared on April "a. 1898.
and was concluded in the following
August. 1t was a succession of Amer
lean victories on land and sea.
The peace treaty was negotiated at
Paris and signed on December 10,
1898. BY its terms Spain recognized
the independence of Cuba and ceded
to the United States the Philippines,
Porto Rico. the island of Guam, and
one Of the Ladrones in the Pacific.
In return the United States agreed to
pay 500. 600. 900 to Spain.
This country never declared war
against Germany. On April 6, 1917 II
was announced that "a state of war
exists" The immediate cause of the
war will be set down in history as the
adoption by Germany of a policy OF
unrestricted submarine warfare" on
February /, 1917. following a series of
torpedo attacks. causing the loss of
the Lusitania and a score of other
ships, with attendant loss of hundreds
of lives of American citizens.
The first units of American troops
were landed in France within two
months from the declaration OF a
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