On Feb. 6, 1899, Congress approved the Treaty of Paris, which also ceded the Philippines, Puerto Rico and Guam to the U.S.

In the American press, headlines proclaimed "Spanish Treachery!" and "Destruction of the War Ship Maine Was the Work of an Enemy!" William Randolph Hearst and his New York Journal offered a $ ...

On February 13, 1898, the USS ... Spanish forces surrendered. They did on July 17, but the damage had already been done. Fewer than 400 American soldiers were killed in combat during the war.

BANGOR, Maine (WABI) -People gathered in Bangor ... but it was one of the factors that led to the Spanish-American War. “It’s one of those days where we do remember, and while we, as the ...

The USS Maine blew up and sank on Feb. 15th, 1898 in Havana Harbor, Cuba. The Spanish were blamed and it helped ignite the Spanish-American War. Rather than sabotage, seven decades later ...