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Glass informed them that the United States and Spain were at war. ... The Americans planned to capture the city of Santiago de Cuba to destroy Linares' army ... A contingent of Spanish troops, having fought a skirmish with the Americans.....

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to defend its self and prove to the world that it was a super power

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The US was a more industrialized power with a larger and better armed army. Rapid smallpox helped greatly by depleating the Spainish Army.

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