THE NAVAL BATTLE OF SANTIAGO DE CUBA AND END OF THE SPANISH-CUBAN-AMERICAN WAR

THE NAVAL BATTLE OF SANTIAGO DE CUBA  AND END OF THE SPANISH-CUBAN-AMERICAN WAR Por Pedro V. Roig, Esq Before Spain declared war on the United States on April 24, 1898, the Cuban Army of Independence had been fighting for over three years and inflicting devastating losses to the Spanish Army and Economy.  From its vast supply of men, mostly poor, illiterate peasants, Spain paid the staggering price of losing, mainly to yellow fever, over 25% of those soldiers that made the transatlantic voyage to Cuba. One in every four soldiers, fighting in the mosquitos infested fields, never returned to their families in Spain. Cuba’s Army of  Independence also accelerated the Spanish economy into bankruptcy. When the U.S.entered the war, Spain was facing military and financial disaster. Admiral Pascual Cervera, Chief of the Spanish Atlantic Fleet. Officers and sailors fought the enormous fire power of the U.S. Navy  with extraordinary courage.  Leer articulo Completo     www.cubastrategicstudies.com

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