2 thoughts on “American troops, Spanish-American War, 1898”
3000 lost their lives, 90% of which from infectious diseases in what was essentially a trade war for commodities and US expansion of interest in the Pacific.
And that’s just the Americans that got killed. To this day the US still holds onto Guam and Puerto Rico which were won in this brief war, Cuba and Philippines eventually got independence.
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3000 lost their lives, 90% of which from infectious diseases in what was essentially a trade war for commodities and US expansion of interest in the Pacific.
And that’s just the Americans that got killed. To this day the US still holds onto Guam and Puerto Rico which were won in this brief war, Cuba and Philippines eventually got independence.