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The Spanish Navy, officially the Armada, is the maritime branch of the Spanish Armed Forces and one of the oldest active naval forces in the world. The Spanish Navy was responsible for a number of major historic achievements in navigation, the most famous being the discovery of America and the first global circumnavigation.
The Spanish–American War was also the first time that the Marine Corps acted as America's "force in readiness" because they were the first American force to land on Cuba. Being a "body of troops which can be quickly mobilized and sent on board transports, fully equipped for service ashore and afloat" became the Marine Corps' mission ...
Pages in category "Spanish–American War naval ships of the United States" The following 19 pages are in this category, out of 19 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
A Spanish gunboat during the Spanish-American War, similar to the kind utilised at Manzanillo. Upon the outbreak of war, the United States Navy had placed a blockade around the island of Cuba, both to assist the local revolutionaries fighting against Spanish rule, and to hamper Spanish efforts to resist the American expeditionary forces by ensuring they could not move around men and supplies ...
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This category contains historical naval battles fought as part of the Spanish–American War (1898–1898). Please see the category guidelines for more information. Pages in category "Naval battles of the Spanish–American War"
Spain considered the islands to be a part of the Spanish East Indies but had not actually occupied them, and Velasco′s cruise was intended to gather information to support an intended colonization of the islands as well as Spanish plans to establish two naval divisions there, based on Ponape in the Eastern Carolines and Yap in the Western ...
Until 1716 there was not one single Spanish Navy but several naval forces, of which the Armada del Mar Océano was the primary one but several other distinct forces existed. The Real Armada ("Royal Navy") was created by the newly-established Bourbon government in 1716, but the other armadas (in Spanish, the word "armada" is used for both "navy ...