Any of their former New World colonies.
The Spanish would rather see Cuba sunk than sold to the U.S.
Spanish Galleons were sunk.
the ships got sunk
santiago harbor
The Maine sunk before the Spanish-American War.
Sunk. In hurricane of 1715
spanish american war
The USS Maine.
Spain, when the US battleship Maine sank in Havana harbor. It was believed that the Spanish had sunk the American battleship with a command-detonated mine, but after the war it was discovered that the Maine was sunk by an internal explosion.
It was the USS Maine, and it was probably not a mine.
I wonder if you refer to the Lusitania which was sunk by German submarine U-20 on May 7th, 1915. Some 1198 passengers were killed, many of them Americans. Hwever the sinking occurred off the south coast of Ireland rather than the coast of Spain.
Captain Charles Sigsbee was commanding when she was sunk.