Battle of Santiago de Cuba
Battle of the Spanish–American War
Battle of Santiago de Cuba
The Battle of Santiago de Cuba was fought on July 3, 1898, between a United States Navy squadron led by Rear Admiral William T. Sampson and Commodore Winfield Scott Schley and a Spanish Navy squadron under Counter-admiral Pascual Cervera y Topete during the Spanish–American War. The significantly more powerful American squadron, comprising four battleships and two armored cruisers, decisively defeated the outgunned Spanish squadron, which consisted of four armored cruisers and two destroyers, sinking all of Cervera's ships while losing none of their own. The crushing defeat sealed the American victory in the Cuban theater of the war, ensuring Cuba's independence from Spanish rule. Beginning in 1895, American-Spanish relations worsened over Spain's suppression of the Cuban War of Independence, with the American public being agitated by exaggerated reports of Spanish atrocities against Cubans. In January 1898, the American cruiser USS Maine was sent to Cuba to protect American interests in...
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