Spanish-American War of 1898

Spanish–American War
Part of the Philippine Revolution and the Cuban War of Independence
(clockwise from top left) Signal Corps extending telegraph lines from trenches USS Iowa Filipino soldiers wearing Spanish pith helmets outside Manila The defeated side signing the Treaty of Paris Roosevelt and his Rough Riders at the captured San Juan Hill Replacing of the Spanish flag at Fort Malate
Date April 21, 1898 – August 13, 1898 (3 months, 3 weeks and 2 days) Location Cuba and Puerto Rico (Caribbean Sea) Philippines and Guam (Asia-Pacific) Result American victory Treaty of Paris of 1898 Territorial changes Spain relinquishes sovereignty over Cuba, cedes Puerto Rico, Guam and the Philippine Islands to the United States for $20 million
Belligerents
United States Cuban revolutionaries Filipino revolutionaries	Spain Cuba Philippines Guam Puerto Rico
Commanders and leaders
William McKinley Nelson A. Miles Theodore Roosevelt William R. Shafter George Dewey William Sampson Wesley Merritt Joseph Wheeler Charles D. Sigsbee Máximo Gómez Demetrio Castillo Duany Emilio Aguinaldo Apolinario Mabini Antonio Luna	Maria Christina Práxedes Mateo Sagasta Patricio Montojo Pascual Cervera Arsenio Linares Manuel Macías Ramón Blanco Antero Rubín Valeriano Weyler Basilio Augustín Fermín Jáudenes José Toral y Velázquez Diego de los Ríos
Strength
72,339 troops (total) 53,000 rebels 40,000 rebels	206,000 troops (Caribbean) Unknown (Philippines)
Casualties and losses
American: 281 killed and 1,577 wounded (Army) 16 killed and 68 wounded (Navy) 2,061 dead from disease 11 prisoners 1 cargo ship sunk 1 cruiser damaged	Spanish: 200 killed and 400 wounded (Army) 500–600 killed and 300–400 wounded (Navy) 15,000 dead from disease 40,000+ prisoners 6 small ships sunk 11 cruisers sunk 2 destroyers sunk
The higher naval losses may be attributed to the disastrous naval defeats inflicted on the Spanish at Manila Bay and Santiago de Cuba.

American victory

United States

Spain

American:

Spanish:

The higher naval losses may be attributed to the disastrous naval defeats inflicted on the Spanish at Manila Bay and Santiago de Cuba.

The Spanish–American War (Spanish: Guerra hispano-americana or Guerra hispano-estadounidense; Filipino: Digmaang Espanyol-Amerikano) was fought between the United States and Spain in 1898. Hostilities began in the aftermath of the internal explosion of the USS Maine in Havana Harbor in Cuba, leading to U.S. intervention in the Cuban War of Independence. American acquisition of Spain's Pacific possessions led to its involvement in the Philippine Revolution and ultimately in the Philippine–American War.

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