123388.pdf (application/pdf Object) Reporting the War - Journalism & the Spanish American War. On April 11, 1898, two months after the battleship U.S.S.
Maine was destroyed by an explosion in Havana harbor, President McKinley sent a message to Congress requesting authority to use the U.S. armed forces to end a brutal civil war in the Spanish colony of Cuba. Congress voted to support Cuban independence, to demand the withdrawal of Spanish troops from the island, and to authorize the use of force to achieve those objectives. On April 25, after Spain broke diplomatic relations and declared war against the United States, Congress formally asserted that a state of war existed. In a whirlwind military campaign, the U.S. Army invaded Cuba and the U.S. Gilbert Stuart: Making Faces. George Washington Crossing the Delaware.
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