It is easy to point to one trigger event as a cause or pretext for a conflict but the growing political unrest and global instability that leads to the event is what inflames the passions and forms the rationale for it and it's potential opportunities.
I don't think that I have read this compilation of events quite this way but I like that the United States took such definitive action for Cuban Independence. A package deal with Guam, the Philippines and Hawaii as a bonus. Not a bad deal for the United States of America.
At Columbus Circle, outside of Central Park in Manhattan, stands The USS Maine Monument which commemorates the 260 American sailors who perished on February 15th, 1898 when the USS Maine exploded while in harbor in Havana, Cuba. (I saw it a few years ago when visiting Manhattan...I’ll post a pic at my Statue Page at FB.
Newspaper publisher William Randolph Hearst called for a public memorial to the Maine, and the sculpture was dedicated in 1913. The gilded bronze figures atop the pylon represent Columbia Triumphant leading a seashell chariot of three seahorses. They are said to be cast from metal recovered from the guns of the Maine itself.
It is easy to point to one trigger event as a cause or pretext for a conflict but the growing political unrest and global instability that leads to the event is what inflames the passions and forms the rationale for it and it's potential opportunities.
I don't think that I have read this compilation of events quite this way but I like that the United States took such definitive action for Cuban Independence. A package deal with Guam, the Philippines and Hawaii as a bonus. Not a bad deal for the United States of America.
Thank you Tara.
At Columbus Circle, outside of Central Park in Manhattan, stands The USS Maine Monument which commemorates the 260 American sailors who perished on February 15th, 1898 when the USS Maine exploded while in harbor in Havana, Cuba. (I saw it a few years ago when visiting Manhattan...I’ll post a pic at my Statue Page at FB.
Newspaper publisher William Randolph Hearst called for a public memorial to the Maine, and the sculpture was dedicated in 1913. The gilded bronze figures atop the pylon represent Columbia Triumphant leading a seashell chariot of three seahorses. They are said to be cast from metal recovered from the guns of the Maine itself.