At the onset of war with the United States, illness had decimated the Spanish fighting force, with 55,000 troops out of an army of 230,000 ... Fewer than 400 American soldiers were killed in ...

April 21, 1898 marks the beginning of the Spanish-American War. President William McKinley ... men in Cuba in conjunction with the regular army now already assembling. The remaining 20,000 men ...

This book makes the case that Theodore Roosevelt, William Randolph Hearst, and Joseph Wheeler, with help from Stephen Crane and Richard Harding Davis, brought about the Spanish-American War. While ...

At the onset of war with the United States, illness had decimated the Spanish fighting force, with 55,000 troops out of an army of 230,000 ... Disease Fewer than 400 American soldiers were killed ...