<P> United States: 25,000--70,000 total dead 6,800 killed in battle 17,000 died of disease </P> <P> France: at least 7,000 dead (2,112 in the United States) </P> <P> Spain: 5,000 killed </P> <P> Netherlands: 500 killed </P>

One reason that the united states went to war against spain was that