21 apr 1898 anni - Spanish American War
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Spain declared on the U.S. on April 24
George Dewey led a U.S. naval squadron into Manila Bay in the Philippines on May 1, 1898, and destroyed the anchored Spanish
Santiago surrendered to Shafter on July 17, thus effectively ending the brief but momentous war.
Spain’s defeat decisively turned the nation’s attention away from its overseas colonial adventures and inward upon its domestic needs, a process that led to both a cultural and a literary renaissance and two decades of much-needed economic development in Spain
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