1891. Oct. 16 - A number of Cnileans mobbed a party of sailors from the United States. Steamship Baltimore at Valparaiso. killing 2 and injuring 15. The Chilean government discountenanced the outrage and made ample atonement.
1894. Feb. 2 - The famous Kearsargs wrecked on Roncador Red.
1898. Feb. 15 - United States battleship Maine blown up in Havana harbor, with a loss of 260 men out of a com plement of 350. This was the second greatest deader in our navy.
1898. March 19 - Battlehip Oregon sailed from San Fran. orison on bee famous voyage around the Horn.
1898. April 22 - Read-Admiral Sampson began the block ade of the north coast of Cuba.
1898. April 25 - United States declared that war with Spain existed from April 21st.
1898. April 27 - Sampson bombarded the Cuban port of Matanzas, silencing the Spanish batteries and preventing the erection of additional fortifications.
1898. April 29 - Commander McCalla drove a Spanish gunboat into the harbor of Cienfuegos.
1898. May 1- Dewey destroyed the Spanish fleet under Montojo in the harbor of Manila. capturing Cavite and gurvag complete possession of the harbor. Oar were 6, while that of the enemy was 618..
1898. May 11- Cervera's squadron arrived off Mar 1898. May 11- Commander Chapman Coleman Todd entered the harbor of Cardenas with the cruiser MI mineiort, revenue cutter Hudson, and torpedo boat Wiesiow. The Winslow was suddenly attacked by a concealed battery and driven off in a crippled coadition. The Winslow bad five killed (including Rneign Worth Bagley) and two injured.
1898. May 11 - A boat party from Commander McCalla's squadron advanced on Cienfuegos, and under a terrine fire cut two submarine cables. We had eight killed or wounded.
1398. May 12 - Admiral Sampson bombarded San Juan. Porto Rio°. silencing the enemy's guns. Our loss WY eight killed or wounded.
1898. June 3 - Hobson made his famous dash with the colher Merrimac into the harbor of Santiago. The collier was destroyed and her entire crew made prisoners.
1898. June 6- Sampson made the first bombardment of Santiago, the Spanish batteries being silenced. We had no casualties, but the enemy admit a loss of 54 killed or wounded.
1898. June 11 - The Spaniards began their attack on our marines at Camp McCalla, Gtuintanaino Bay. It was continued for several days, when a determined attack of the enures put the enemy to flight. Our
loss was 28 killed or wounded; that of the enemy was greater.
1898. June 20 - Captain Glass Occupied the island of Guam.
1898. June 22 - Captain S-igibee, itt the passenger steamer Saint Paul, disabled the anish torpedo boat destroyer N Terror. o casualties for the Americans; the enemy having 2 killed and several wounded.
1898. June 30 - Lieut. Lucia Young, with small boats. silenced the Spanish batteries at Manzanillo.
1898. July 2 - Commander Swinburne destroyed the Spanish fortifications at Tunas, after a spirited action.
1898. July 3 - Cervera's formidable squadron was cons. pletely destroyed off Santiago after a spirited battle and chase lasting nearly four hours, by the American fleet under the immediate command of Admiral Sampson.
1898. July 15 - Commander Hunker attacked the Spanish batteries at Bantam. Only two Americans were injured.
1898. July 21 -A handsome dash was made into the_port of Nipe by three gunboats under the orders of Com mander Hunker, and destroyed the Spanisn cruiser Doe Jorge Juan.
July uly 25 - Commander Richard Wainwright, in the Gloucester. occupied the port of Guanica, Porto Rico, being the first regular American force to land on that island in this war.
1898. July 27 - Lieutenant Merriam. with two boats' crews, took possession of Ponce, Porto Rico.
1898. Aug. 12 - Captain Goodrich attacked and compelled the surrender of Manzanillo.
1898. Aug. 13 - Dewey's fleet assisted army in attack on Manila, which resulted in the surrender of that place; Flag Lieutenant Brumby hoisting the first American colors over the city.
1900. May — Rear-Admiral Kempff, commanding the flag ship Newark in Chinese waters, detached a body of marines, who, until the relief force arrived, co-operated witn the small force of the Allies in Peking, in defense of the foreign embassies, besieged by the Boxer revolution ists. (See PEKING, THE SIEGE IN.) 1907. Cruise of an American fleet around the world as a demonstration of the naval power of the United States. 1914. Mexican complications led to the occupation of Vera Cruz by marines 21 April.
1917-18. The World War. Convoy of troops to Europe. Suppression of German submarine menace. Surrender of the German fleet 21 Nov. 1918 to the allied British and American navies in the North Sea.