Why Commodore George Dewey Won The Battle Of Manila Bay

Cause Effect
• Commodore George Dewey sent 7 ships to the Manila Bay in Philippines and the Spanish Naval force had powerful ships
• The U.S and the Spanish commander, Admiral Montojo, had his hope up that the shore battery will support them from the attack against the U.S. • The Spanish was still preparing for the attack until Dewey's ship came on April 30 and attacke them on May 1st and destroy the Spanish force.
• United States waited for the landing force to come.

• The landing force came and the United States was in charge of the Philippines.
• Commodore George Dewey came up with the idea of sending the ships to Manila Bay in Philippines. • Sending the ships to Manila Bay cause them to won the Battle of Manila Bay.

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U.S army wasn’t the best fighting force like the U.S navy in 1898 and they were short on numbers.
• Volunteers was called out for people to join the force.
• U.S landed in Cuba and fought El Caney and San Juan Hill winning the Spanish force until in July they became tired and was short on supplies. • The Spanish Fleet took advantage of that and broke into the U.S naval blockade and destroyed it
• 18,000 U.S soldier were battling against Puerto Rico which had 9,000 Spanish soldier. • On August 10 they had an armistice signed by the Spanish and U.S official which is to stop fighting for a certain period of time and the U.S lost 2,500 people and the others had diseases.

• U.S and Spanish representatives agreed to the Treaty of Paris. • Agreeing to the treaty gave U.S the control of Puerto Rico and Guam.
• Cuba had a war for independence which leaded to destroying the island apart from 1895-1898. • Insurgents burned the sugar cane fields and mills and destroyed anything they can like railroad turning Cuba into an economic
desert.

• Spanish copied a long-term concentration strategy that will separate the rebels from the other populations. • Spain was able to force many Cuban peasants to leave and go to the towns that’s controlled by Spanish military garrison.

• The Cuban listen to the Spanish and went to the towns controlled by Spanish military garrison. • There weren’t enough supplies like food and medicine and not enough housing and work therefore, Cuban got sick and died.

• 1895 Cuban population was about 1,600,000. • When the war starting there were 240,000 Cubans that died from starvation and disease.

• McKinley wanted to know what was really happening in the war with Cuba and Spain but Yellow Press wasn’t a reliable source to get true information. • McKinley sent a political friend names William J. Calhoun to Cuba to bring back what was really happening and it was a heartbreaking news because many women and children were close to death.

• McKinley confronted Spain minister Stewart L. Woodford and gave him 3 months to end the war with Cuba. I. • If Stewart didn’t end the war U.S was going to intervene.
• February 9, the New York Journal sent out a private letter from the Spanish minister that stated Sagasta’s Cuban reforms was just a distraction to give Spain more time to beat Cuba in the war. • When McKinley found out about the letter, he wanted the Republican in Congress to release the consular report on Cuba and once it is public it would be an easy ticket for U.S to enter the war and end it.

• The USS Maine exploded on Feb. 15 in Havana harbor killing about 260-266 people. • Before Congress can release the consular report the cause of the ship exploding causing the U.S to enter the war.