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Why did Admiral Dewey easily defeat the Spanish fleet that was guarding Manila Bay?
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Because of several things in has favor.
- Dewey had a greater number of modern ships.
- The Spanish thought he would lose so he wanted to A.) spare Manila the shelling and B.) be sunk in shallow water.
- to do that he did move away from the shore batteries and waited for Dewey to find him.
- When Dewey did find him, his better trained crews fired over 4,000 rounds at the Spanish fleet in a couple of hours.
- Overall, the Spanish had no chance, thought they had no chance and lost all their ships with the one American casualty caused by a heart attack.
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