WORLD HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Puerto Rico. On October 18, 1898, American troops fighting in the Spanish-American War raised the United States flag in Puerto Rico formalizing U.S. control of the former Spanish colony. General Nelson A. Miles had landed approximately 3, 500 U.S. troops on the island on July 25.

Detailed explanation-2: -Puerto Rico’s colonial status dates to the “discovery” of the American continent by European imperial powers 528 years ago. Like most of Central and South America, the island was under Spanish rule for over four centuries before being handed over to the U.S. in 1898 after the Spanish-American War.