Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 August 1898 — CHRONOLOGY OF THE WAR. [ARTICLE]

CHRONOLOGY OF THE WAR.

January 25.-U. 8. battleship Maine, Capt. C. D. glgabee, U. 8. N.. Is ordered to Havana, Cuba." . February B.—The publication of a letter written by Benor Dupuy de Lome, Spanlah Minister to the United States, -speaking disparagingly of President McKinley, leads to the Minister's resignation of his post and the appointment of Senoir Luis Polo y Benia be. February 15.—The U. 8. battleahip Maine, lying in the harbor of Havana, Is dev stroyed and snnk by an explosion between 9 and 10 o’clock p. m. February 17.—Bear Admiral 81card, commanding the North Atlantic squadron, orders a conrt of Inquiry into the loss of tbe Maine. February 19.—The request of the Spanish officials In Havana for a joint investigation Into the loss of the Maine Is declined. February 2L—Tbe United States Senate orders an investigation into tbe Maine disaster. March 8, 9.—Congress votes to place $50,000,000 at the unqualified disposal of President McKinley as an emergency fnnd. March 16.—Spain remonstrates against the presence of the United States fleet at Key West and against other measures of defense by our Government. March 17.—Facts concerning Cuba stated in the Senate by Senator Proctor, of Vermont, as the result of personal observation. March 28.—Court of Inquiry’s report on the Maine sent to Congress. April s.—Consul Geueral Lee recalled. April 10.—Consul General Lee leaves Cuba. April 11.—President McKinley sends a message to Congress recommending armed Intervention In Cuba. April 15.—Army ordered to mobilize. April 16.—Senate belligerency resolutions passed. April 18.—Congress votes against Cuban recognition. April 19.—Congress passes resolutions demanding the withdrawal of Spain from Cuba. April 20.—Queen opens Cortes with war speech. Government announces Its opposition to privateering. President signs notification to the nations of intention to blockade. April 21.—Our Minister at Madrid, Gen. Stewart L. Woodford, informed by the Spanish Minister of Foreign Affairs that diplomatic relations between Spain and the United States are terminated. April 21.—President McKinley cables our ultimatum to Spain, demanding a reply by April 23. April 21.—Senor Polo y Bernabe, Spanish Minister, receives his passport and leaves Washington. April 22.—Cruiser New York, Sampson’s flagship, captures Pedro, 2,000 tons, fifteen miles east of Havana. April 22.—Cuban ports blockaded by the American squadron. April 23.—The President Issues his proclamation calling for 125,000 volunteers. April 24 (Sunday).—A Spanish decree declaring war against the United States was gazetted at Madrid. April 25.—Congress passes a resolution declaring that the state of war existed from April 21. April 26.—Recruiting volunteers began in New York City. April 27.—United States vessels bombard Matanzas. April 27.—Seventh Regiment declines to enlist. April 28.—Commodore Dewey's fleet sails from Hong Kong for Manila. April 29.—Spanish squadron sails from Cape Verde for the West Indies. April 29.—New York shells Cabanas forts. April 29.—U. 8. cruiser Yale (Paris) arrives In New York. April 30.—Commodore Dewey’s squadron arrives off Manila. April 30.—Flagship New York fires on Spanish cavalry sharpshooters off Havana. May I.—U. S. cruiser Topeka arrives at New York from Falmouth. May I.—Commodore Dewey’s squadron destroys the Spanish fleet at Manila. May 2.—Cable from Manila to Hong Kong cut by Commodore Dewey. May 4.—Battleship Oregon and gunboat Marietta sail from Rio Janeiro. May 7.—Commodore Dewey Informs State Department of tbe seizure of Cavite. May 9.—Congress thank* Rear Admiral Dewey. May 10.—The Gussie expedition sailed from Tampa. May 11.—Ensign Worth Bagley and four of the crew of the torpedo-boat Winslow killed by a shell from tbe Spanish forts at Cardenas. May 12.—Admiral Sampson's squadron bombards the forts at San Juan, Porto Rico. May 12.—The Spanish Cape Verde fleet arrives at Port de France, Martinique. May 12.—Gussie expedition repulsed. May 13. —Commodore Schley's fleet sails south to meet the Spanish squadron. May 14.—Spanish Cape Verde fleet sighted off Curacoa. May 15—Rear Admiral Dewey reports on fall of Manila. May 15.—Sagasta’a Cabinet resigns. May 15.—Spanish torpedo-boat destroyer Terror disabled at Port de France, Martinique. May 15.—Spanish fleet leaves Curacoa. May 15. —Gen. Merritt ordered to the Philippines as Military Governor. May 15.—Gov. Black authorizes reorganization of disbanded Thirteenth Regiment. May 17.—Sagasta's new Cabinet announced at Madrid. May IS.—Ninety thousand troops ordered to mobilize In Chickamauga. May 20.—Spanish fleet arrives at Santiago de Cuba. May 22.—Cruiser Charleston sails for Manila. May 23.—Troops A and C arrive at Camp Alger, Falls Church, Va. May 24.—The Spanish fleet Is bottled up at Santiago. May 25.—Three transports with 2,588 men start for Manila. May 25.—President Issues a call for 75,000 more volunteers. May 26.—Oregon arrives In Key West. May 26.—One of Spain's cabinet ministers said the country was willing to accept “an honorable peace.’’ May 26.—Commodore Schley is In touch with the Insurgent leaders. May 26.—Florida expedition landed without opposition near Guantanamo, Cuba. May 27.—Spanish scout ships chased by American warships near Key West. May 29. —Commodore Schley reports the trapping of Cervera In the harbor of Santiago de Cuba. ■> May 29.—Cruiser Columbia arrives at New York, having been In collision with the British steamship Foscolla, which sank. May 30.—Troops embark at Tampa for Havana. May 31.—Rear-Admiral Sampson's fleet bombards forts of Santiago de Cuba. June I.—Transports for Manila arrive at Honolulu, Hawaii, and the Roys In Blue become the guests of the city. June I.—Monitor Monadneck ordered to Manila from San Francisco. June 2.—Spain again appeals to the Powers to intervene. .

Jpne 3.—American squadron bombarded Santiago de Cuba. June C.—Lieut Hobson sink* cruiser Merrlmac In the mouth of the harbor of Santiago de Cnba. Jane 6.—Fortifications of Santiago de Cuba reduced. June 7.—American squadron bombards and silence* batteries at Santiago. June 7.—Monitor Monterey and collier Bratns sail for Manila. .Jane B.—Assaslt on fortifications of Guantanamo Bay. June 9.—House agrees on war revenue conference report. June 10—Admiral Sampson reports he has held Guantanamo harbor since the 7th. June 10.—Senate agrees on conference report on war revenue bill. June 11.—Four Americans at Calmanera are killed In a fight with the Spaniards. June 18.—Thirty-two transports with Shatter’s troops sail for Santiago. June 13—President McKinley signs the war tax bill. June 14.—Two Americans and several hundred Spaniards hilled in a battle at Caimanera. June 15.—Second expedition sailed from San Francisco for Manila. June 15.—Great destruction result* to Santiago forts through the use of the dynamite gnos on the Vesuvius. June 17.—Spanish sqnadron sailed from Cadiz and passed Gibraltar. June 20.—Transports with Gen. Shatter’s troops arrive off Santiago. June 22.—Part of Bhafter’s troops landed. June 23.—Balance of troops landed without accident. June 23.—Admiral Camara's Cadiz fleet arrives at Island of Pantellaria. June 24.—Sixteen American soldiers killed and forty wounded in driving back Spanlah soldiers at Santiago. June 27.—Commodore Watson to command fleet to attack Spanish home territory. June 27.—President McKinley recommends thanks of Congress for Llent. Hobson, and that he be transferred to the line. June 28.—President proclaims blockade of Southern Cuba from Cape Frances to Cape Cruz. June 29.—Gen. Shatter reports he can take Santiago In forty-eight hours. June 29.—The Senate thanks Lieut. Hobson and his men, naming each one personally. Jnne 30.—Egyptian Government refused to let Camara coal his fleet at Port Said. July I.—Shatter's army began the assault upon Santiago de Cuba, capturing the Enemy’s outer works. July 2.—Shatter renewed the attack upon Santiago, losing about 1,000 In klied and wounded, and making ,2,000 Spanish prisoners. The Spanish casualties probably exceeded those of the Americans. July 3.—Cervera’s fleet destroyed at Santiago, with great loss of life. July 6.—Spanish transport Alfonso XII. blown up off Mariel by American gunboat a July 6.—Hobson, the hero of the Merrlmac, and his comrades exchanged for Spanish prisoners outside Santiago. July 7.—President signs Hawaiian annexatlan resolution. July 7.—Admiral -Dewey took Subig and 1,300 prisoners. July 11. —Cruiser St. Louis brings Admiral Cervera and 746 prisoners to Portsmouth, New Hampshire. July 11.—Admiral Sampson’s fleet bombarded Santiago. July 13.—Announced that yellow fever has broken out In Gen. Shatter’s army. July 14. —Gen. Toral and the Spanish army surrendered Santiago at 3 p. m. . July 17.—“01d Glory” raised over'Santlago at noon. July 18. —President Issues a proclamation providing for the government of Santiago. July 18.—Seven American vessels bombard Manzanillo and destroy seven Spanish ships. &■ July 21.—Gen. Miles, with 3,415 men on transports, conveyed by warships, starts to take Porto Rico. July 21.—American gunboats captured Nlpe and sank the Spanish cruiser Jorge Juan. -July 21.—Gen. Callxto Garcia, commander of * the Cuban army of Eastern Cuba, owing to discontent because the American Government had Ignored him and his troops In the surrender of Santiago, withdrew. July 2L—News reached this country that the -.second expedition to re-enforce Admiral Dewey had arrived at Cavite. July 22.—Aguinaldo declared himself dictator of the Philippines. July 23.—Another expedition for the Philippine Islands sailed from San Francisco. July 25.—Gen MUeB and 3,500 men reach Guanleo, Porto Rico, and effect a landing. July 26.—Secretary Day, M. Cambon, French ambassador, and bis first secretary, M. Thlebant, confer with President McKinley In regard to terms of peace. July 27.—The port of Ponce, Porto Rico, surrenders to Capt. Davis, of gunboat Dixie. July 30—News of Gen. Merritt’s arrival at Cavite received at Washington. July 30.—Dewey informs the President that Aguinaldo, the Philippine Insurgent chief, assumed a defiant attitude. July 31.—The Spanish forces at Cavite made a sortie during a fierce storm on tbe American troops In the Malate trenches. They were repulsed with heavy loss. Ten of Gen. Merritt's men were killed &nd forty-eight wounded. Angnst 2.—President McKinley makes public the terms of peace offered to Spain by the United States. August 4.—The monitor Monterey and Its consort Brutus arrive at Manila. August 4.— Gen. Shatter and his subordinates ask that the fever-stricken army at Santiago de Cuba be removed north. August s.—Formal orders Issued for the removal of Gen. Shatter’s army to this country. August 6.—Spain accepts the terms of peace offered by the United States. x August 6—Guayamo, Porto Rico, captured by Gen. Haines’ forces. Three Americans cornered. August a—Spain accepts President McKinley’s peace terms, Certain representations were made regarding Cuba which were not accepted, however. August B.—Spaniards at Guantanamo lay down their arms and surrender to Brig. Gen. Ewers. Angnst 9.—Gen. Ernst's brigade captured Coamo, Porto Rico, after a lively fight, In which seven Pennsylvania volunters were wounded. Two hundred Spaniards were taken prisoners. August 9.—Spaniards attempt to retake the lighthouse at Cape San Juan, but are repulsed with heavy loss. August 10.—A protocol covering the peace terms of the United States has been agreed upon by M. Cambon, representing Spain, und President McKinley. August 10.—Gen. Schwan's forces defeat Spanish troops at Maynguez, Porto Rico. Loss on our side two killed and one wounded. August 11.—Spain’s cabinet formally approved President McKinley’s peace protocol and a cablegram was sent to M. Cambon authorizing him to sign In behalf of Spain. August 12.—M. Cambon, Freneh ambassador to the United States, signs the protocol and a cessation of hostilities is ordered.