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| Spanish–American War | |||||||||
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| Part of the Philippine Revolution and the Cuban War of Independence | |||||||||
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| Belligerents | |||||||||
 United States Cuban revolutionaries First Philippine Republic | |||||||||
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Other leaders Other leaders Other leaders | Other leaders | ||||||||
| Strength | |||||||||
| Total: 300,000 | Total: 339,783
 51,331 (Philippines) | ||||||||
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American: | Spanish: | ||||||||
The higher naval losses may be attributed to the disastrous naval defeats inflicted on the Spanish at Manila Bay and Santiago de Cuba. | |||||||||
The Spanish–American War was a war fought between Spain and the United States in 1898, partly because many people in Cuba, one of the last parts of the Spanish Empire, wanted to become independent. Many Americans also wanted their country to get a colonial empire.
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