<Table> <Tr> <Th_colspan="2"> Spanish--American War </Th> </Tr> <Tr> <Td_colspan="2"> Part of the Philippine Revolution and the Cuban War of Independence </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td_colspan="2"> (clockwise from top left) <Ul> <Li> Signal Corps extending telegraph lines from trenches </Li> <Li> USS Iowa </Li> <Li> Filipino soldiers wearing Spanish pith helmets outside Manila </Li> <Li> The defeated side signing the Treaty of Paris </Li> <Li> Roosevelt and his Rough Riders at the captured San Juan Hill </Li> <Li> Replacing of the Spanish flag at Fort Malate </Li> </Ul> </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td_colspan="2"> <Table> <Tr> <Th> Date </Th> <Td> April 21, 1898--August 13, 1898 (3 months, 3 weeks and 2 days) </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Location </Th> <Td> <Ul> <Li> Cuba and Puerto Rico (Caribbean Sea) </Li> <Li> Philippines and Guam (Asia - Pacific) </Li> </Ul> </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Result </Th> <Td> <P> American victory </P> <Ul> <Li> Treaty of Paris of 1898 </Li> </Ul> </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Territorial changes </Th> <Td> Spain relinquishes sovereignty over Cuba, cedes Puerto Rico, Guam and the Philippine Islands to the United States for $20 million . </Td> </Tr> </Table> </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th_colspan="2"> Belligerents </Th> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> <P> United States </P> <Ul> <Li> Cuban revolutionaries </Li> <Li> Filipino revolutionaries </Li> </Ul> </Td> <Td> <P> Spain </P> <Ul> <Li> Spanish West Indies <Ul> <Li> Cuba </Li> <Li> Puerto Rico </Li> </Ul> </Li> <Li> Spanish East Indies <Ul> <Li> Philippines </Li> <Li> Guam </Li> </Ul> </Li> </Ul> </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th_colspan="2"> Commanders and leaders </Th> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> <Ul> <Li> William McKinley </Li> <Li> Nelson A. Miles </Li> <Li> Theodore Roosevelt </Li> <Li> William R. Shafter </Li> <Li> George Dewey </Li> <Li> William Sampson </Li> <Li> Wesley Merritt </Li> <Li> Joseph Wheeler </Li> <Li> Charles D. Sigsbee </Li> <Li> Máximo Gómez </Li> <Li> Demetrio Castillo Duany </Li> <Li> Emilio Aguinaldo </Li> <Li> Apolinario Mabini </Li> <Li> Baldomero Aguinaldo </Li> <Li> Antonio Luna </Li> </Ul> </Td> <Td> <Ul> <Li> Queen Maria Christina </Li> <Li> Práxedes Mateo Sagasta </Li> <Li> Patricio Montojo </Li> <Li> Pascual Cervera </Li> <Li> Arsenio Linares </Li> <Li> Manuel de la Cámara </Li> <Li> Manuel Macías </Li> <Li> The Marquess of Peña Plata </Li> <Li> Antero Rubín </Li> <Li> The Duke of Rubí </Li> <Li> José Toral y Velázquez </Li> <Li> Basilio Augustín </Li> <Li> Fermín Jáudenes </Li> <Li> Diego de los Ríos </Li> </Ul> </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th_colspan="2"> Strength </Th> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> <Ul> <Li> 72,339 troops (total) </Li> <Li> 53,000 rebels </Li> <Li> 40,000 rebels </Li> </Ul> </Td> <Td> <Ul> <Li> 206,000 troops (Caribbean) </Li> <Li> 55,000 troops (Philippines) </Li> </Ul> </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th_colspan="2"> Casualties and losses </Th> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> <P> American: </P> <Ul> <Li> 281 killed and 1,577 wounded (Army) </Li> <Li> 16 killed and 68 wounded (Navy) </Li> <Li> 2,061 dead from disease </Li> <Li> 11 prisoners </Li> <Li> 1 cargo ship sunk </Li> <Li> 1 cruiser damaged </Li> </Ul> </Td> <Td> <P> Spanish: </P> <Ul> <Li> 200 killed and 400 wounded (Army) </Li> <Li> 500--600 killed and 300--400 wounded (Navy) </Li> <Li> 15,000 dead from disease </Li> <Li> 40,000 + prisoners </Li> <Li> 6 small ships sunk </Li> <Li> 11 cruisers sunk </Li> <Li> 2 destroyers sunk </Li> </Ul> </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td_colspan="2"> <P> The higher naval losses may be attributed to the disastrous naval defeats inflicted on the Spanish at Manila Bay and Santiago de Cuba . </P> </Td> </Tr> </Table> <Tr> <Th_colspan="2"> Spanish--American War </Th> </Tr>

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