At 9:40pm on February 15, 1898, the battleship U.S.S. Maine exploded in Havana Harbor, killing 268 men and shocking the American populace. Of the two-thirds of the crew who perished, only 200 ...

On February 15, 1898, a mysterious explosion destroyed the American battleship Maine in Havana Harbor and helped propel the United States into a war with Spain. The USS Maine was in Cuba ...

American Coup: Wilmington 1898 tells the little-known story of a ... is very concerned 'cause he needs to load these ships. These ships are waiting. For him, this is a nightmare, because this ...

depicts the U.S. Navy’s defeat of a Spanish flotilla in Manila Bay in 1898. Sanz was aboard one of the Spanish ships, yet his painting seems to glorify U.S. power. The American ships ...

That was the ugly scene in Wilmington at the end of the 19 th century, a buried chapter of our history uncovered in the documentary American Coup: Wilmington 1898, directed by Brad Lichtenstein ...

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While American battleships, carriers, cruisers, and destroyers played a pivotal role overcoming the Axis powers, many vessels faced tragic fates, succumbing to enemy forces and sinking into the ...

Perhaps the most spectacular naval museum ships in the United States today ... service in the Pacific theater of the Spanish-American War of 1898. At the time, she was a state-of-the-art warship.