Troops on the march, Spanish American War. Artist Glackens, William J., 1870-1938. Library of Congress Congress approved President McKinley's request for a declaration of war on April 25 ...
Foreign occupiers were particularly susceptible: an estimated 16,000 Spanish troops died from yellow fever between 1895 and 1898. At the onset of war with the United States, illness had decimated ...
Despite becoming known as the Spanish flu, the first recorded cases were in the United States in the final year of World War I. (Explore the memorials of World War I.) A magnified view of the H1N1 ...
On Feb. 6, 1899, a peace treaty between the United States and Spain was ratified by the U.S. Senate; the treaty ended the Spanish-American War and ceded the Philippines, Puerto Rico and Guam to ...