Florida in the Spanish-American War

Download or read book Florida in the Spanish-American War written by Joe Knetsch and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2011-02-11 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Florida began as a Spanish colony, with governing headquarters in Havana, Cuba. It is fitting, then, that the state played such a large role in the Spanish-American War. As a base of training and combat operations, Floridas involvement was crucial to the war effort. Join trusted historians Joe Knetsch and Nick Wynne as they log a fascinating chapter in Floridas historya time when Roosevelts Rough Riders prepared for battle at Tampa bases, when battleships departed from south Florida ports to avenge the sunken USS Maine and when a nation looked to the Sunshine State to help unite America around a common cause, even as the nation still struggled to come to terms with the Civil War and Reconstruction