Newport, RI, July 3, 1899.
Sailors aboard the USS New York celebrate the one-year anniversary of the Battle of Santiago de Cuba, a decisive naval engagement in which the US fleet defeated an outgunned squadron of the Royal Spanish Navy in the harbor of Santiago, Cuba.
The Spanish defeat brought the US victory in the Cuban theater of the Spanish-American W…
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