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Spanish American War Spanish Fleet
2,842 words... some could not even sail because their bottoms were covered with barnacles. The Spanish ships were armed with old cannons, and the crews lacked proper ammunition and skilled marksmen, causing additional fires to break out of the old wooden planks of the When the news of the stunning victory reached home, Americans cheered ecstatically. Dewey, "the conqueror of the Philippines, " became an instant national hero. Stores soon filled with merchandise bearing his image. Few Americans knew what an...
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Socialist Party Spanish Army
1,556 words... ight. The murder of so many Socialists broke up the Socialist International and caused certain parties to revise their position on legalism and parliamentarian. The Socialists got angry because, in spite of their servility to capitalism, capitalism in its Fascist phase, was kicking the Socialists out of office and making them lose their social reform and nice jobs. These reformists saw that they would have to fight to keep their reforms. The masses, under Socialists influence, were demanding...
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The Spanish American War
900 wordsHi I'm doing my report on the Spanish American War. In the following pages I will be giving information on how and why the war started, major battles, and the results of the war. I will also include stories from people on the battleship Maine. Introduction The Spanish American War marked the emergence of the United States of America as a world power. The war which lasted only 10 weeks between April and August of 1898 took place over the liberation of Cuba. In the course of the war the U. S. won ...
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The Accidental Crusade Spanish American War Part 1
1,662 wordsThe accidental crusade: The Spanish American War The Spanish-American War was brief, but it became the beginning of the American overseas empire, formal and informal. For Several centuries Spain remained the World's empire and its colonies were spread worldwide. But by the end of the nineteenth century only few Spanish possessions remained in the Pacific, Africa and West India. Most part of the former Spanish possessions gained independence or fell into other hands. The remained colonies struggl...
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The Accidental Crusade Spanish American War Part 2
1,665 words... the genocide of the Spanish Army in Cuba combined with the utter disdain of the American forces had to be stopped. William Randolph Hearst's Journal even published pictures. They showed how Spanish saboteurs had fastened an underwater mine to the Maine and had detonated it from shore. Evidently the appointed illustrator was furnishing the pictures well. For weeks after the explosion of the Battleship Maine Hearst was publishing lengthy stories about horrors in Cuba. Another paper followed th...
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World War Ii Spanish Army
1,138 wordsFrancisco Franco was born in El Ferrol, Spain on December 4 th 1892. He was the second son of a father who was a naval paymaster and a devout catholic mother. Franco s father was eccentric, wasteful and somewhat dissolute (Trythall, pg 1). Franco was destined for a career as a naval office but reduction of admissions forced him to choose the army. At age fourteen he gained admission to Spain s premiere military institution, the Infantry Academy at Toledo. By age twenty he was promoted to first l...
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House Of Lords Guy Fawkes
1,034 wordsFawkes Guy, was one of the greatest conspirator in the Gunpowder Plot. Fawkes, pronounced fawkes Guy, English conspirator, born in York. A protestant by birth, he became a Roman Catholic after the marriage of his widowed mother to a man of Catholic background and sympathies (Miller 578). In 1593 he enlisted in the Spanish Army in Flanders and in 1596 participated in the capture of the city of Calais by the Spanish in their war with Henry IV of France. He became implicated with Thomas Winter and ...
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