USA HISTORY

American soldiers in the Spanish American War mostly died from?

(A) Explosion of the USS Maine

(B) ** Food poisoning & disease

(C) battle wounds

(D) prisoner camps

Concept note-1: -Typhoid fever was the major killer of American soldiers during the Spanish-American War, running rampant through the national encampments. Every regiment in the First, Second, Third, Fourth, Fifth and Seventh Army Corps developed typhoid fever.

Concept note-2: -Besides Cuba, the war would encompass both the Philippines and Puerto Rico. The men were issued heavy wool uniforms, had inadequate medical supplies, and rations that spoiled in the heat, forcing them to mainly subsist on canned beef that was stringy and tasteless at best and possibly sickened or killed some soldiers.

Concept note-3: -Even so, losses were severe: in the combined theaters of the war, fourteen times as many men died of tropical diseases as from enemy action. Pressure to conquer malaria and yellow fever did not end with the armistice: to maintain control of Cuba, the Army planned to station ten regiments there.

Concept note-4: -The number of deaths was estimated to be at least 50 million worldwide with about 675, 000 occurring in the United States.