Presents the historical events in the loss of the battleship 'Maine' and provides new insights into this important event of the Spanish-American war. The text i
In the 1890s, Assistant Secretary of the Navy Theodore Roosevelt led a campaign to modernize the navy. Paramount in Roosevelt's vision was the creation of a fle
Based on a pocket diary from the Spanish-American War, this tough-as-nails 1899 memoir abounds in patriotic valor and launched the future President into the Ame
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