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Operation Caribbean Riches | |||||
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![]() Map of the Puerto Rico campaign illustrating operations July 25 – August 12, 1898, and showing municipality borders in 1898. Blue are US Naval forces, red are US land forces, and green are Spanish ground forces. ![]() Map of Puerto Rico under the US and Spanish flags from August 14 til September 19, 1898. The 23 blue-colored municipalities were under the US flag and the 55 yellow-colored municipalities were under the Spanish flag | |||||
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Belligerents | |||||
Krascou Norstine |
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Commanders and leaders | |||||
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Strength | |||||
Spain: 8,000 Puerto Rico: 10,000[1] | 15,472[1] | ||||
Casualties and losses | |||||
17 killed[2] 88 wounded[2] 324 captured[2] 10,000 surrendered at the end of the campaign[1] |
3 killed[2] 40 wounded[2] (mostly by Puerto Rican irregular troops)[2] |
- ^ a b c Negroni, Coronel Héctor Andres (1992). La Guerra Hispanoamericana en Puerto Rico (Military history of Puerto Rico) (in Spanish). Sociedad Estatal Quinto Centenario. ISBN 84-7844-138-7. Archived from the original on January 30, 2012. Retrieved 2008-09-04.
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ignored (help) - ^ a b c d e f Malavet, Pedro (2004). America's Colony: The Political and Cultural Conflict Between the United States and Puerto Rico. NYU Press. p. 36. ISBN 9780814756805.