The island of Puerto Rico was acquired by the United States after the Spanish-American War. Although the usual narrative is ...

This in-depth breakdown covers the dramatic rise of the United States as a global power following the 1898 Spanish-American ...

A Spanish colony ... and military support to Spain and strongly opposed any effort toward Cuban emancipation. Weakened by ...

So, I ask: What percentage of Spain would you have ceded to Napoleon's France to avoid all those deaths? Perhaps 20% or 50%?

Unlike the Ten Years' War, the Cuban Independence ... into the conflict in 1898, the end of Spanish rule became a reality. However, the defeat of Spain and the U.S. presence in Cuba raised new ...

While Spain did not declare war on the side of the Axis Powers and did not declare war on the Soviet Union, Franco embraced the crusade against communism. He sent 45,000 “volunteers” from the Spanish ...

Alfonso Domingo, co-director of the documentary “Invisible Heroes: African-Americans in the Spanish ... traveled to Spain to fight alongside the Republican side in the civil war.

In the fall of 1896, Filipino nationalists revolted against the Spanish ... Spain went to war over Cuba, the Philippines joined the side of the U.S. On June 12, 1898, Aguinaldo declared the ...

The Battle for Spain, by Anthony Beevor, is a reworking of The Spanish Civil War, a book he first published in 1982. Since then, a great deal of new material about the war has become available, some ...

Although a movement toward Mexican independence had already been in progress since Napoleon's conquest of Spain, Hidalgo's passionate declaration ... His actions irritated the Spanish viceroy who, as ...