While Dewey blockaded the islands, the U.S. quickly organized an army to dislodge the 35,000 Spanish soldiers trapped in Manila. Brigadier General Arthur MacArthur, then a Colonel in the Adjutant ...

But Alger ordered the troops to hold their ground in Santiago until Spanish forces surrendered. They did on July 17, but the damage had already been done. Fewer than 400 American soldiers were kil ...