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Two major Naval Battles were fought in the Spanish American War. Commodore George Dewey struck Manila Bay and destroyed the Spanish Fleet on 1 May 1898 and Comodores William Sampson and Winfield Scott Schley took out the more modern Caribbean Squadron at Santiago de Cuba on 3 July 1898.

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