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What was battleship Maine?

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Anonymous

9y ago
Updated: 8/21/2019

The Maine was a U.S. Battleship that blew up in Havana harbor. Most of the U.S. newspapers at the time blamed the explosion on the Spanish, who controlled Cuba at the time. The explosion of the Maine was one of the main triggers for the Spanish-American war that followed.

Carefull modern investigation indicated that the suspicion that the Spanish blew up the Maine was almost certainly wrong and that it was likely due to some kind of accident on the Maine itself.

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