USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -The Battle of Santiago de Cuba was a decisive naval engagement that occurred on July 3, 1898 between an American fleet, led by William T. Sampson and Winfield Scott Schley, against a Spanish fleet led by Pascual Cervera y Topete, which occurred during the Spanish–American War.

Detailed explanation-2: -The main theatres of combat in the Spanish-American War were the Philippines and Cuba. Fighting centred on Manila, where U.S. Commodore George Dewey destroyed the Spanish Pacific fleet at the Battle of Manila Bay (May 1, 1898), and on Santiago de Cuba, which fell to U.S. forces after hard fighting in July.

Detailed explanation-3: -Two major naval battles in the Spanish-American War were the battle of Manila Bay and the Battle of Santiago de Cuba. In both battles, the United States decisively won against Spanish fleets.

Detailed explanation-4: -Scanner’s note: The Battle of Santiago Bay occurred on July 3, 1898. The American navy’s defeat of the Spanish battle fleet marked the end of centuries-long Spanish power in the western hemisphere. 1, 800 Spaniards died in the battle, in contrast to one American death and one American wounded sailor.

Detailed explanation-5: -The battle was a complete American victory. The Spanish lost every vessel in the flotilla and had 323 men killed, 151 wounded, and 1, 720 captured. 22 Only one American seaman was killed, Chief Yeoman George H. Ellis of the Brooklyn, and none of the American vessels suffered significant damage.