7. Spanish Minster wrote McKinley is “weak” and “a bidder for admiration of “weak” and “a bidder for admiration of the crowd” THE DE LOME LETTER

12. “Remember the Maine and to hell with Spain”

15. Battles in the Phillipines

21. Battles in Cuba

29. Battles in Puerto Rico The US Forces only needed a blockade and short ground offensive!

31. The Treaty of Paris in 1798 Ends the war!

32. Treaty of Paris: Cuba gains its independence and Spain cedes the Philippines, Guam and Puerto Rico to the United States for the sum of $20 million.

33. “A SPLENDID LITTLE WAR”

34. THE WAR LASTED ONLY 15 WEEKS!

37. Total American Casualties Total troops: 306,760 Combat Deaths: 2446 Non Combat Deaths: 385 Other(disease)Deaths: 2061 Wounded: 1662

38. Spain lost over 5,000 Troops!

41. President McKinley was quoted as saying: “that there was nothing left for us to do but to take them all (the Phillipine Islands) and educate the Fiilipinos, and uplift and Christianize them” The Filipinos were Christian for the last two hundred years!