Talk:Spanish–American War

Removed assertion that the U.S. "backed" the Philippine Revolution.

Here, I've removed ", which the U.S. later backed upon entering the Spanish-American War", re the Philippine Revolution, and have rearranged the text a bit. This has been in the article for a long time ([1]). Commodore Dewey certainly facilitated the resumption of the revolution (which had been suspended in 1897 by the Pact of Biak-na-Bato) by returning Emil Aguinaldo to Manila from exile in Hong Kong, and this is explained a bit further down in this same section of the article. Asserting that the U.S. "backed" the revolution, though, overstates the extent and the depth of U.S. commitment in that regard. Wtmitchell (talk) (earlier Boracay Bill)

food poisoning due to defective cannining and the american

I remember reading somewhere that Theater Roosevelt signed into law the Federal Meat Inspection Act partly because he remembered how a lot of solders in the Spanish American war died from food poisoning due to badly canned meat sold to the army. Does anyone have any reference to badly canned meat and food poisoning killing a lot of american soliders? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 207.207.120.212 (talk) 05:40, 26 September 2013 (UTC)

USS Maine sinking

It's unbeliveable what I read at the end of this title. Please read the spanish version of this article and take your own conclusions. I would strongly advice a small enlargement regarding studies on this issue, since the writing may lead many people to a severely biased opinion. This is an encyclopedia, not a propaganda display case.

Ok...... So what is unbelievable? Can you please clarify for the sake of ease of editing? As well as sign your comments? Because this little snippet does nothing to help but tell the world that you think something is unbelievable. Hum-hm, that's great but it isn't going to help evaluating or (if necessary) fixing it. ELV 75.36.166.243 (talk) 19:07, 11 April 2014 (UTC)

Possible US Navy photos

Click here for newly-released photos of the Spanish-American war, published by the US Navy, so no copyright issues. FYI.--Tomwsulcer (talk) 20:51, 8 May 2014 (UTC)

Fantastic photos (see also [2]). At least one[3] seems doubtful as a work produced by employees of the United States federal government in the scope of their employment. The ones on Flickr (including that one) are annotated by them as "(CC by 2.0)", though. Wtmitchell (talk) (earlier Boracay Bill) 03:05, 9 May 2014 (UTC)

Yes I had that same thought about the photo of the Spanish sailors. Maybe the photo was obtained by the US Navy afterwards? Either way, all photos should probably pass Commons copyright issues since they're before 1900.--Tomwsulcer (talk) 08:22, 9 May 2014 (UTC)

US-Withdraw.

This section ends "Still, when the Ninth left, 73 of its 984 soldiers had contracted the disease." But it never states when this withdraw happened. Nitpyck (talk) 20:13, 26 July 2014 (UTC)