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May 13. The Flying Squadron left Hamp- 

 ton Roads for Eastern Cuba, via Key West. 



May 18. A new Spanish Ministry under 

 Seilor Sagasta came into office. 



May 19. Admiral Cervera's fleet arrived in 

 the harbor of Santiago de Cuba. 



May 22. The cruiser Charleston sailed from 

 San Francisco for Manila. 



May 24. The battle-ship Oregon reached 

 Jupiter Inlet, Florida. 



May 25. The President issued a second call 

 for volunteers, the number being 75,000. 



May 25. The first Manila expedition from 

 San Francisco started. 



May 30. Admiral Sampson's fleet arrived 

 at Santiago from Porto Rico. 



May 31. Forts at the entrance of Santiago 

 Harbor were bombarded. 



June 3. Lieutenant Hobson sank the Mer- 

 rimac in the entrance to Santiago Harbor. 



June 4. Captain Gridley, of the Olympia, 

 died at Kobe, Japan. 



June 6. Spanish cruiser Reina Mercedes 

 was sunk by American navy at Santiago. 



June 10. War Revenue bill was finally 

 passed by Congress. It was signed by the 

 President, June 13. 



June 11. Marines landed at Guantanamo, 

 and skirmished with the Spaniards the follow- 

 ing day. 



June 12-14. General Shafter's army of 

 invasion, 16,000 strong, embarked at Key 

 West for Santiago. 



June 14-15. There was fighting between 

 marines and Spaniards at Guantanamo Bay 

 and a bombardment of the fort at Caimanera 

 by warships. 



June 15. Admiral Camara's fleet sailed 

 from Cadiz for the Suez Canal. 



June 20-22. General Shafter's army landed 

 at Daiquiri ; one killed, four wounded. 



June 2 1 . The Ladrone Islands were captured. 



June 22. The auxiliary cruiser, St. Paul, 

 repulsed a Spanish torpedo-boat attack oft' San 

 Juan, Porto Rico. 



June 24. Juragua was captured . The Span- 

 iards were defeated at Las Guasimas. Capron 

 and Fish were killed. 



June 26. Admiral Camara's fleet reached 

 Port Said. 



June 28. General Merritt departed for 

 Manila. 



July 1-2. The Spanish earthworks at El 

 Caney and San Juan, Santiago, were carried 

 by assault, with heavy loss, in which the 

 Rough Riders and the Seventy-first New York 

 participated. 



July 3. Admiral Cervera's fleet, attempting 

 to escape from Santiago, was destroyed by the 

 American war vessels. 



July 3. The surrender of Santiago was de- 

 manded. 



July 6. Hobson and his comrades were ex- 

 changed. 



July 8. Admiral Dewey's vessels took 

 possession of Isla Grande in Subig Bay, near 

 Manila, and the German gunboat Irene, which 

 had been interfering, withdrew. 



July 8. Admiral Camara started to return 

 through the Suez Canal to Spain. He reached 

 Cadiz, July 29. 



July 10. Bombardment of Santiago was re- 

 sumed. 



.1 uly 1 1 . General Miles arrived at American 

 headquarters in Cuba. 



July 13. Admiral Cervera and captured 

 Spanish prisoners arrived at Portsmouth, N. H. 



July 17. Santiago surrendered. 



July 20. General Leonard Wood was ap- 

 pointed Military Governor of Santiago. 



July 21. Last naval engagement on the 

 coast of Cuba. Four United States warships 

 entered the harbor of Nipe, and after a furious 

 bombardment took possession of that port. 



July 25. United States Army under Gen- 

 eral Miles landed at Guanica, Porto Rico. 

 The town surrendered, and Ponce followed, 

 July 28. 



July 26. The Spanish government, through 

 French Ambassador Cambon, asked for terms 

 of peace. 



July 29. General Merritt landed at Cavit6, 

 Manila Harbor. 



July 30. The President, through the French 

 Ambassador, stated the American terms. 



July 31 . The Americans repulsed the Span- 

 iards, with loss on both sides, at Malate, near 

 Manila. 



August 7. The Rough Riders left Santiago 

 for Montauk Point, L. I. 



August 9. General Ernst defeated a Span- 

 ish force at Coamo, Porto Rico. 



August 9. Spain formally accepted the 

 President's terms of peace. 



August 12. The peace protocol was signed 

 and an armistice was proclaimed. The block- 

 ade of Cuba was raised. 



August 13. Manila surrendered to the Amer- 

 ican forces after a short land fight and bom- 

 bardment by the fleet. 



August 20. Imposing naval demonstration 

 in the harbor of New York. The battleships 

 Iowa, Indiana, Massachusetts, Oregon, and 

 Texas, and cruisers New York and Brooklyn, 

 amid a great popular ovation, steamed up the 

 Hudson river to Grant's Tomb and saluted. 



August 30. General Merritt sailed from 

 Manila for Paris to attend the Peace Confer- 

 ence. 



September 9. United States Peace Com- 



