Show THE WAR WAB FIGURES losses during the arar fare are summed up as follows by the chicago times herald spain for the sake of false pride bigotry polities politics and a child king has hurled in the depths of the sea thirty five vessels of her navy valued at by their rusting hulks lie the bodies of more mor ethan than a thousand gallant tars has surrendered in territory to the united states directly cuba with th a population of and an area of square square miles and a population of also the ladrone islands area square miles and population her total direct loss loom of territory in square miles Is and loss in population she has also jeopardized probably beyond all future control by her the philippine islands with an area of square miles and a population of so that in the ithe end it appears that the spanish kingdom for the sake of the wrong has given up square miles of territory and over of taxpaying population this loss is the gain of the united states which to bring it about placed in service a first class navy with men and fifty effective vessels and a volunteer and regular army of men of which new york gave the largest number pennsylvania next and illinois the third the spanish el nacional Na concedes that in the destruction of cerveris veras fleet spain lost alone of invested money the cristobal colon was valued at and the alz caya at the estimated triad trading capacity of the territory of spain which the united states has taken Is placed at per annum at the present time and that must be tributary hereafter to american coffers and not to the bloodstained blood stained ones of castile and aragon the loss lose in killed and wounded on both old is only approximately known AT MANILA american killed american wounded 6 5 spanish killed spanish wounded 25 AT SANTIAGO american killed or att afterward erward died of wounds received in battle american wounded 1287 spanish killed 1850 spanish wounded 2000 the americans subsequently lost loot in cubs cuba from yellow fever and camp disease so BO far as can be told now I 1 in other cuban enta engagements gement b americans killed 86 Amo wounded spanish killed goo ten wounded total american killed or died d RA wounded 1408 s total spanish killed or died d 2 mute 3 wounded si the following are the most able dates of the war hl feb 15 destruction of the X maina 4 april 19 armed intervention 0 B by congress april 22 Nash vUle fires first ahot al the war april 28 23 president dent calls for is volunteers april 25 declaration of war U cited states cay may 1 battle of manila y may 11 first naval enga engagement geme cuban waters the winslow bast 11 L 7 i may 12 bombardment of ban n J iia porto rico may 19 admiral cervera arrives santiago FJ may 24 oregon arrives off mori dioria pi oria W lourney journey miles may 26 25 president calls for TO more trO troops june 3 lieutenant tenant hobson sinks merrimac Merrl mac in santiago harbor june 10 invasion of cuba by A aibel ami leans commences oom june 11 battle of june 20 ladrone islands taken june 22 general shatter lands land june 24 battle of Bal quirl june cevilla 25 captured july I 1 and 2 battle of Santi suco july 3 destruction of ad admira r veras fleet july 14 Sant santiago lago surrenders july 25 general miles invades rico july 26 spain makes peace tures aug 2 arroyo and Gua Guay yuma aana rico surrender aug 3 french ambassador A with president mckinley for snata aug 5 spanish forces in porto ordered not to restal resist aug 6 spain accepts of the united states |