The Spanish American War: The Rise of a New Global Power

[@velouris76]

I never actually studied the Spanish-American war directly, but did learn about it when studying the Spanish Civil War and its causes: From a Spanish perspective, the defeat in this war had a HUGE psychological effect, as it meant the final loss of the last remaining parts of Spain’s once huge empire, and, more importantly, the realisation that it was lost forever…the shock had huge psychological shockwaves in Spanish society, and caused a divide, between those who still wanted to see Spain as a great colonial power, and those who saw the reality, and wanted change…so this defeat was in fact a cause for the Civil War almost 40 years later (there were other causes as well, of course)..

[@superchug2469]

With the territories Spain loss to the u.s. Did they have any colonies or territory outside of Spain left or was that the last of them?

[@jackkurze2618]

There were some African strips of land still in Spanish possession. Google Rif War and you'll see how the Spanish-American War made sure the Spanish had to commit everything in the Rif War to heal their hurt ego... with devastating consequences.

[@WhydoIsuddenlyhaveahandle]

​@@jackkurze2618I hadn't heard of that one, I'll check it out. Thanks!

[@jackkurze2618]

@@WhydoIsuddenlyhaveahandle you're welcome. Enjoy the journey! And please, continue onwards beyond the civil war. The trauma of the Cuban loss runs deep still

[@jmjedi923]

Not to mention the shock to lose it all to country you basically discovered 400 years earlier

[@scotcoon1186]

Interesting fact- Teddy Roosevelt's roughriders carried two machine guns up San Juan Hill. They were procured privately by two of Teddy's aunts, not the army. The location of one was known. One of the NRA's writers was writing an article about the battle, and noticed a machine gun in the corner of their museum. He checked the serial number to find, sure enough, they had the second gun on display for years.

[@calebsmith5759]

I think they were purchased by Mr. Tiffany of Tiffany and Co. His son was a rough rider.

[@divanbuys1484]

Honestly staying on YT because of Simon. I learn something every single day. And man do I love learning things.

[@ignitionfrn2223]

3:10 - Chapter 1 - Early years
10:45 - Chapter 2 - The battle of manila bay
16:35 - Chapter 3 - Battles for guantanamo bay
21:00 - Chapter 4 - The path to santiago
27:10 - Chapter 5 - The final engagements
35:25 - Chapter 6 - The american...empire ?
- Chapter 7 -
- Chapter 8 -
- Chapter 9 -
- Chapter 10 -

[@victoriaeads6126]

11:30 the USS Olympia is a lovely vessel. I've been on board many times. It is moored on the Delaware River at Philadelphia. Next to it is the USS Bakuna, an early naval submarine. The scent of engine oil and grease on the Bakuna is, for me, one of those scents that brings up happy childhood memories of going onboard those two vessels. On the first weekend of March, 2020, my eldest son and I went on a BSA trip to Philly and spent the weekend onboard the USS New Jersey, which is moored almost directly across the Delaware from Olympia in Camden, NJ. On the Friday of that weekend, we went to Olympia and Bakuna. It was my first time taking him onboard those ships. The world shut down a week after. It may have been somewhat reckless, but taking that trip was a memory my son and I will always share, and it helped get us through some of the worst of the early pandemic.

[@arkos4366]

I visited the Olympia and Jersey last year, unfortunately the Bakuna was closed. Fascinating place

[@Justme-xw4gs]

I hope that your son is old enough that he will have memories of that time for the rest of his life. I'm 72 and have wonderful memories of time spent with my daddy as a child. Things like football games and little league baseball . Vacations we took in the late 1950s and early 1960s.

[@CrossOfBayonne]

I've been on it too, The ship is docked on the Delaware River down in Philly

[@myjmp99]

Learning about the agents that bought all the fuel away from the Spanish in the Suez and the fake battle of Manila that followed was one of the most fascinating things I've ever heard. Cheers for a great video!

[@andyyang3029]

Honestly this is one of the best videos on this channel so far. Awesome job Simon (and Blazement crew).

[@alancranford3398]

Thank you for calling attention to that "temporary" long-distance phone tax that took until 2006 to repeal! For the US government, the most enduring measures are "temporary" measures.

[@AndrewMitchell123]

bro, the whole lockdown in that plandemic was meant to be temporary... really, the most enduring measures truly are temporary

[@alancranford3398]

@@AndrewMitchell123 I'll agree that the whole pandemic lockdown was ANNOUNCED to be temporary ("two weeks to flatten the curve") but the incompetents that planned and carried out the lockdown clearly intended to implement permanent measures (such as isolation booths in Plexiglas, forever mask mandates, forced social distancing) and the lockdown curfews were supposed to be a permanent feature. Prior to the pandemic, there were a number of stores open 24 hours per day almost every day of the year. Now most of those stores will only operate 16 hours per day--with only about half of that time being profitable. The shopping hours reset will be permanent. Retail stores used their around the clock business hours to put competitors who didn't stay open all the time out of business--but the result was that during those hours the retail staff collected more in wages and salaries than they did in sales. The lockdown allowed elimination of that unprofitable block of "business hours" without "losing out" to competitors. Another permanent feature of the lockdown was that businesses were closed unless they were declared "essential" by local decree. Political considerations had more weight than did medical -- so businesses with pull got to stay open but the "little guys" went out of business because they were not allowed to do business. Those businesses are gone and won't be coming back. Perhaps in the future someone will start up those small, politically inconsequential businesses again, perhaps new ones are cropping up, but businesses crushed by pandemic restrictions are permanently gone and in many cases the buildings they occupied have been destroyed. Business closure was a "temporary" measure.

[@AndrewMitchell123]

@@alancranford3398 yes, lives crushed, livelyhoods eliminated and all that just so someone higher up could get vast amounts by having stocks in companies like Pfizer, earning some serious buck on this whole plandemic... oh, how this modern politics disgusts me

[@alexander-mauricemillamlae4567]

*cough* Vietnam draft *cough*

[@CupOhCoffeeTwitch]

@@alexander-mauricemillamlae4567 cough the Vietnam draft is why its illegal to draft people now cough

[@PhillyPhanVinny]

I hate to need to bring this up about in every video in the Spanish American war but every video never covers it. The US never wanted the Philippines as a colony. That goes from the majority of US citizens according to polls taken, to the US Congress to the then President McKinley.
What happened was at the peace conference McKinley told the 2 men he sent not to take the Philippines but the British representatives there convinced them the US had to take the Philippines. The US wanted to free the Philippines and let it be its own country. But as the British explained to the Americans that would never happen until the Philippines could defend itself. The Germans already had their eyes on the Philippines as this video pointed out. But also Russia and Japan were interested in taking parts of the Philippines as well. The British explained that if the US didn't take the Philippines the British may just take it just to prevent Germany from taking it. And under those warnings the American's agreed to take the Philippines with the plan to free it as soon as possible. The Filipinos of course did not believe that after the way they had been treated. But after a few years they found the Americans were telling the truth and trying to make things in the Philippines better. Since the US had no need at all for any of the resources of the Philippines.
This is why the Filipinos were the one major Asian ally nation/colony the Japanese took over in WW2 that didn't believe anything the Japanese said and fought them the whole war until they were liberated. The Filipinos knew they were already just a few years from full freedom when Japan attacked so it make no sense to them why they needed the Japanese to liberate them. The US had built up a army just for the Philippines to defend against future attacks (it was not ready yet when the Japanese did attack).

[@mariopineda4774]

As a Filipino I do agree with you. Having the US as the colonial master was the best option for the Philippines after the Spanish American war. The Philippines was essentially a free nation very quickly under the US. Just with US troops stationed on the islands defending it while a proper modern Filipino Army was built up from scratch.

[@carguy3028]

Amazing how nothing has changed, we tend to think sensationalized journalism is new but it happened in the 1800s.

[@amossa2319]

The sad thing about the war was, for soliders on both sides yellow fever and typhoid were kinda the real enemies. In fact out of all 3000 Americans who died during the war, only a small fraction of them died in combat.

[@matthewdaley746]

WWI was the first war where disease wasn't what killed the most dead soldiers, just terrible.

[@iattacku2773]

Spain: “ but we helped you gain independence”
America: “ old news”
* pulls trigger

[@TheUltimateOpportunist]

The French played a far bigger role anyway 😂

[@matthewdaley746]

Yeah, you can leave your language in South America, too bad you'll have to give up all of the land.

[@matthewdaley746]

@@TheUltimateOpportunist Yeah, and, only because they were mad at Britain, for giving them three islands, one, they lost to slaves, another, that's forgettable, and, a, third, that got buried by ash, years later.

[@Hyde_Hill]

@@matthewdaley746 Which Islands are that?

[@matthewdaley746]

@@Hyde_Hill Haiti, Guadeloupe, and, Martinique, not, to, mention, that they were still stinging from giving up most of Canada, after taking Quebec, they figured the British, would, either, lose their shirts, or, perish, with, the rest of it, that didn't happen.

[@scipio109]

And that ladies and gentlemen is why in Spain we still refer to this as the disaster of 1898😶

[@monckey44]

the 15 rounds mixup is truly hilarious. good thing he told the crew the retreat was for food cause that really could’ve reflected badly

[@LtColShingSides]

"Hey can we borrow some gunpowder? We'd like to return your salute."
"Bruh, we're at war..."
"Oh... so that's a no on the gunpowder??"

[@johnwalsh4857]

Do a docu on the Philipppine American war 1899 to 1902. The Americans fought the Filipinos bit longer than they fought the Spanish.

[@vbucci6894]

And bloodier

[@entropy8634]

And crueller. Arguably the height of American hypocrisy

[@scotcoon1186]

I believe that's the conflict where someone who later became famous said of the need for a new sidearm, caliber doesn't matter as long as it starts with a 4.

[@johnwalsh4857]

@@scotcoon1186 yah the good ole .45 acp the myth is that the automatic was first used in the Philippines vs. Moro Muslim berserkers, but in reality it was the .45 ACP from a colt revolver that was used to put down the moros, later it got adopted in the colt 1911 which was first used in Pershing's expedition to kill or capture Pancho villa in northern Mexico.

[@GimmeJimmy23]

Well, that's a bit shoite, isn't it?

[@als3022]

Siege of Baler is an interesting event that occurred between the Filipino rebels and Spanish soldiers too. Along with the Battle of Camaron with the French Foreign Legion.

[@scatterbrainart]

This is quickly becoming one of my favorite history channels on RUclips. I love your style of presentation. Fabulous work!

[@michaelparker8657]

It seems like the US should have kept Cuba. Might have saved a lot of trouble.

[@johannessanmiguel]

They never intended to, there was strong opposition from the Senate and the GOP leaders. Everybody talks about the Platt Amendment but no one mentions the Teller Amendment.

[@armandotalampas4800]

We truly love this episode! Yes, Sir Simon, make a video about the Philippine-American War. This is the sequel to the Spanish-American War.
This is one of the most tragic historical events in Philippine history. More Filipinos died in this war than the Revolution from Spain. Estimates range as high as 1.5 to 3 million, although three million is certainly a fantastic number and highly unlikely. Filipino historian Gregorio Zaide gives a figure of 200,000 civilians and 16,000 soldiers killed. Zaide is a pro-American historian.
Please also feature on Biographics, Gen. Emilio Aguinaldo, the first President of the Philippine Republic

[@brianthesage5119]

Philippine American War is also a very good video for Warographics. Meanwhile the Balangiga Massacre would be an episode of into the shadows

[@InquisitorXarius]

@@brianthesage5119 Agreed

[@InquisitorXarius]

Also, I prefer to call it the Philippine Revolution, not the Philippine insurrection. The dreams of Philippine Independence, crushed by the lies and manipulations of Dixie Affluents and Monopolies

[@theoutlook55]

¡Páquatelas! ¿Murieron tantos? Uff.

[@cashewnuttel9054]

But people on Reddit philippines claim that murica is a force for good more than bad, and now you say they murdered 3 million people?

[@djsonicc]

It's also crazy that Roosevelt was responsible for building up and modernizing US Navy right before things popped off with Spain

[@MirageGSM]

Another war I'd never heard of before. Thank you for your ongoing efforts to educate us!

[@terrestrialextra4790]

Did you not go to school? Are are you not American?

[@MirageGSM]

@@terrestrialextra4790 The second guess is correct. Oh, and before you ask, I'm not from Spain either.

[@philliprogers4255]

What? We're you born under a rock or what?

[@andyyang3029]

@@MirageGSM ignore these losers, not everyone had the same history classes /exposure. We all learn new things all the time👍

[@MirageGSM]

@@andyyang3029 Oh, don't worry, I don't let myself be offended by comments like that. I won't even ask them if they learned about the Revolution of 1848 in school. 🙂

[@brandentempelmeyer4785]

Soldiers going hundreds of hours without sleep is insane when you consider the fact that after 72 hours your risk of sudden death and hallucinations both go up so you had a bunch of soldiers who were illuminating and at risk of just suddenly died all fighting a Battle.

[@SkunkApe407]

Welcome to the reality of war. There is no pause button or timeouts.

[@chadbrownlee3144]

That's actually false. You don't die from sleep deprivation after 72 hours. While it does impair your cognitive abilities and does effect your health you won't die. In 1963 Randy Gardner went on record for being awake for 264 hours and 25 minutes. He slept for 14 hours afterwards.

[@guitarguymi]

Bully!! Insert Theodore Roosevelt smile. You know the one.

[@marcusaurelius117]

i wonder how odd it is that i watch these videos (not just this channel but also biographics and geographics and into the shadows also) on an almost regular basis. I realize alot of the time its dark history but as a great man once said "those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it". Besides i somehow find this to be a more valuable use of my time as opposed to watching tv or taking part in the dumpster fire that is online social networks (instagram, twitter etc.)

[@AJT.92]

I feel this! You sound like me. This content, it's absolutely a billion times better than watching TV.

[@rachaelsdaddontdrink]

Congratulations... You have decided to watch informative content instead of vapid TV programming...

[@AJT.92]

@@rachaelsdaddontdrink If you don't have anything nice to say, why comment at all.... Such insipid behaviour...

[@rachaelsdaddontdrink]

@@AJT.92
Ever heard of sarcasm?

[@brittking3990]

@@rachaelsdaddontdrink it oh!!! Flame war is heating up lol

[@michaelsinger4638]

Good one Simon.
Could you maybe do a video on the Second Seminole War? A really interesting conflict.

[@kathyastrom1315]

My great grandfather’s big brother signed up for the war in June 1898, but his company was still in training in Florida when the war ended, so he never had to go into combat. He was still able to call himself a veteran of the war, though.

[@dillonhillier]

So he's a liar

[@jacobstewart3428]

The precursor to this war looks very familiar to modern government tactics

[@adamhbrennan]

It was the USA’s first use of the lie of “promoting democracy” that it has since used to thinly veil all its imperialist endeavors

[@jjdelft3216]

Specific?

[@xenon54]

US Imperialistic ambitions even at that time was a drop in the bucket compared to Britain's.

[@theduder7709]

I actually have been lucky enough to visit the medal of honor site commemorating John Quick. It was super neat and one hell of a hike!

[@mattcromwell4308]

Honestly an amazing video. Outstanding storytelling and such a cliffhanger ending!!!😎😎😎 Please do Philippine American war next to continue the story 👍👍👍

[@bakthihapuarachchi3447]

I just watched your George Orwell video from Biographics a few days ago, and the way you described the Spanish Civil War was insane. I think it would be a great addition for this channel

[@CptMoroni35]

Wait….the US media distorting stories and sometimes outright making shit up?! No….. that never happens here, 😂😂😂😂😂

[@AI-hx3fx]

Thank you for mentioning the Battle of Manila Bay, as well as Philippine Revolution along with the finer points. This includes in the sham battle and sale of the Philippines and other parts of the Spanish East Indies to the United States, as well as the zeitgeist of 1898 for all sides. An older incident of slow news was the British Occupation of Manila in 1762. As part of the Seven Years' War, it took a long time before people in Manila knew of both declarations of war and peace.
As for American Imperialism, the general consensus is it was beneficial to our people, but it remained a colonial power that shaped our government and culture. We did eventually realise that the early phase of American Occupation was brutal and that America was more for its interests than ours. That led to our lobby for independence that was given in 1946 after our Commonwealth status was interrupted by the horrific Japanese Occupation during the Second World War. One lasting impact is that many other Filipinos communicate well in English, which is what I am doing right now.

[@sgtmayhem7567]

The Spanish were armed with the spectacular 7mm Mauser bolt action rifle that could be reloaded very quickly with a 5 round stripper clip. The US troops were armed with M1892 Springfield bolt action rifle, better known as the.30/40 Krag-Jorgensen, it also had a 5 round magazine, but the rounds had to be loaded into the magazine individually making reloading it a much slower process. The M1892 was the standard US military rifle fo only r 10 years.

[@philhatfield2282]

Only some U.S. troops were armed with the Springfield 1892. A fair portion of the U.S. forces were armed with the Springfield Model 1884 "Trapdoor" rifle. It was a black powder weapon, so the shooter was visible and fairly slow loading. The Model 1892 used smokeless powder and, as you mentioned, carried up to 5 shots in an internal clip and was a full bolt-action rather than single shot like the Model 1884 was.

[@andersbjrnsen7203]

As a Norwegian it pains me to admit this, but the 7mm Mauser is, at least here in northern Europe, regarded as clearly superior to the Krag.

[@philhatfield2282]

@@andersbjrnsen7203 yeah, I think even the American thought the Mauser was superior, but they didn't want to rely on enemy weapons for a number of reasons. Still the Krag was superior to the Springfield M1884 "Trapdoor" rifle.

[@seanmccarty1176]

​@@andersbjrnsen7203 that's why the M1903/06 Springfield rifle copied the Mauser action. It was partially due to the experience with the Spanish Mausers. From that point forward it has always been big army's desire to have the best small arms technology in the world.

[@unfortunately_fortunate2000]

saying the US was armed with the Krag is a bit of misinformation, the rifle was accepted but only partly adopted, in reality the majority of US troops were still using black and smokeless breech loaders or even converted some over to being bolt action rifles.
it was the the Spanish-American war that led the US to adopting the M1903 Springfield.

[@Svensk7119]

"You may fire when ready, Gridley." I have never heard that famous line before.

[@aflebron]

Normally articles about this way tend to leave Puerto Rico out due, I think, to the Cuban and Filipino stories... Thank you very much for doing justice to the WHOLE history.

[@ravenfeeder]

I had some notion that the Spanish-American War was short, but after hearing in detail the ferocity of the fighting, and the vastness of territory changes across multiple theatres of war, hearing that it lasted 4 months before a cease fire was shocking.
They really just got it over with huh?

[@John-ci8yk]

Probably every American male my age knows the phrase" you may fire when ready Gridley" , but unfortunately we know it from Saturday morning cartoons. It was uttered by Bugs Bunny in a cartoon short with I think Yosemite Sam. Thank you for the video and thumbs up.

[@m.c.martin]

And on the Death Star from Grand Moff Tarkin “You May fire when ready”

[@ethanbell6762]

Idea for a video: The Football War, where two sovereign nations with enough tension to measure on the Richter Scale went to war because of immigration, soccer, and bananas

[@ricardomontoya2395]

YESSSSSSSSSSS

[@forgeworldobsidian9774]

Would love It.

[@brianparsons6283]

He did this video already?

[@ethanbell6762]

@@brianparsons6283 When?

[@macmiller1678]

This was a great episode. I did not know very much about the Spanish American war outside of Teddy Roosevelt's rough riders and the battle of Manila Bay so most of this was new to me.

[@jmanj3917]

13:25, "Goddammit, Ensign Carl, you had ONE f'n JOB!!" Lololol

[@TetsuShima]

Surely the Spanish felt with the Americans the same ironic terror that Dr. Frankenstein suffered at the hands of his creature: being destroyed by the hands of the monster you created.

[@matthewdaley746]

Ironically, despite, being entirely kicked out of South America, they left their language behind, with, only a few true, exceptions.

[@cobracommander8133]

@@matthewdaley746 You, write, the way, William Shatner, talks.

[@matthewdaley746]

@@cobracommander8133 Thank You, I greatly prefer him to Patrick Stewart, Captain Picard sucks, though, I've, liked, him in other things, my far bigger problem is that ruining Star Trek, is enough to secure a knighthood, while, winning an Oscar, apparently, isn't, Jeremy Irons is still waiting, for, "reasons," totally unfair, period.

[@cobracommander8133]

@@matthewdaley746 LOL Totally agree. Kirk/Shatner > Picard /Stewart

[@matthewdaley746]

@@cobracommander8133 Terrific, supporters exist, monumental joy deep, within, me, no question, at all.

[@gibby2395]

Fisherman just chilling
**dramatic boss fight music starts**

[@TetsuShima]

*Fun fact:* The Spanish-American War caused the origin of war cinema, since the first films of the genre were short propaganda films that recreated the naval battles that took place during the War. Who would say the genre that gave us masterpieces such as "Saving Private Ryan" or "Platoon" was, at first, created to give a very bad image of Spain to Americans?

[@milesb2111]

How is a question a fact?

[@alancranford3398]

"Now all journalism is yellow journalism," (with apologies to Stallone's "Demolition Man," 1993)

[@matthewdaley746]

60 Minutes only isn't called, Yellow Journalism: The, TV Series, because that would be too on the nose, that simple.

[@tarn1135]

Fun fact teddy was extremely close with Seth Bullock of deadwood fame and was actually raising another regiment for Teddy when the war ended

[@kalaiolele8796]

The Spanish American War, one of the reasons the US decided to illegally "annex" the Kingdom of Hawai'i. The US needed a port between the US and the Philippines.

[@Leo-eb1wl]

The funniest part of this whole story is Spanish soldiers paddling out to borrow some gun powder so they could return the salute 😂

[@MrTexasDan]

I own a Spanish Mauser, a Krag, and a Trapdoor Springfield. The Spanish Mauser is vastly superior. The situation was resolved a few years later with the introduction of the "American Mauser", the M1903 Springfield. Theodore Roosevelt was president then.

[@zensunni1715]

The Puerto Rico campaign was pretty interesting due to the particular geography of the island. There's a mountain range that divides the island roughly equally between north and south. The southern counties were less inclined to follow colonial rule in part due to their relative distance from the capital in San Juan and readily surrendered to the US, creating the stalemate described here. The irony is they traded one colonial status that was about to become an autonomic one for a relatively harsher colonial status of economic exploitation.

[@alexandermartinez6600]

Well buddy,it wasn't that the island changed one for the other.The island is 100x 35 (in miles) and was invaded by both, first one,and then the other.We never had the chance to gain independence.

[@deborahcollazo]

Having the US take over PR has been a good thing for PR… without the US Puerto Rico would be another Haiti

[@timkincade9763]

PR voted multiple times on the question of independence, the vote has always been to stay a territory. What does it have to be a functional country on it's own ? What economic exploitation does it have to take ? The US would save money if PR voted independence.

[@zensunni1715]

@alexandermartinez6600 the US purported to be liberators. You can't fault a ponceño for believing a well told lie.

[@komm6668]

Spain was basically the senile old man shouting at a wall at this point.

[@matthewdaley746]

Can you truly blame them, they lost the entirety of South America, pain lasts.

[@Halcon_Sierreno]

@@matthewdaley746 As someone who was their former subject, it's funny seeing their comeuppance.

[@matthewdaley746]

@@Halcon_Sierreno Yeah, like, Portugal, all, of their riches ended up amounting to nothing, they seriously flatlined, and, it's fun to watch.

[@covenant_mog05]

A year later this is still an awesome video. Been holding out for a year after this video for Simon to cover the Philippine-American War. Here's to still hoping 😊

[@robertalpy9422]

Japan was a rising power in the east an an old enemy of Spain. If Spain still held her pacific Islands by the time Japan was ready to strike, Japan would hold sway over the pacific. We had to sieze stains colonies or Japan would. Any excuse would do.

[@juliusdelacruz7549]

Really in depth analysis!... I hope you'll do a video on the Philippine-American War.

[@mohammedsaysrashid3587]

always this channel introducing informative episodes ...similar to this one ...thanks for sharing

[@muhhneeganmahneggan3739]

So basically the US did Spain like Germany did Poland 1939. Surprise attack on a Nation a decade behind based on a false flag.
Attacking Spain with better equipment and outnumbering 7 to 1, so brave.

[@connorhoffman4760]

He literally said in the video there is zero evidence of a false flag and that the evidence points to an accidental explosion.

[@Mr.Byrnes]

In one ear out the other with you idiots 😂

[@user-fn2iw4uv3p]

Thanks for the videos. I enjoy historic vidios and the analysis of current events. I would like to see a vidio on the Phillipines between the Spanish American war and world War 2. Most documentaries neglect this time period.

[@aymonfoxc1442]

I do enjoy all of the 'American Empire' stuff on the internet that tends to completely ignore the post-war order the Yankees instituted. It seems like the US was willing to play by the rules of the colonial era (thus ensuring it became too powerful for Europe to threaten) until it had the power to change international norms - which meant pushing the UN and its charter, along with other things. Sadly, no nation has a history free of violence and oppression, which ultimately says a lot about the nature of humanity. The video is a fine example of that reality when one considers the history of all the nations in its tale.

[@tomaslopez2940]

6:33 Doesn't sound too different from today's big news channels...

[@williamsullivan3702]

i spent a few months in guantanamo bay. there's old tunnels, with fire positions all over. outside the fence are all old landmines. it was a nice base tho like a vacation

[@jmanj3917]

Great video. A tip of my hat to your research team!

[@grapeshot]

Yeah this is when the United States felt like well we better start copying off of Europe and get us some overseas colonies.

[@frankieseward8667]

If only we copied off Asia later on....

[@tremedar]

Copied off Europe? Nah, just learning from dear old dad and starting our colonial journey by beating up Spain.

[@theoutlook55]

The US getting in in the age of imperialism rush now that the western frontier was closed /civilized enough.

[@Superbl0bby]

“Born too late to settle the west, born too early to get my own Radio. Born just in time to kick the Spaniard’s ass.”
Some things never change.

[@bredsheeran2897]

After the USS Maine was sunk(for foreigners the USS Maine got its name from the US state of Maine), the rally cry “Remember the Maine” became the rallying cry for the Spanish American war much like the rally cry “Remember the Alamo” was in the Mexican-American war

[@frankieseward8667]

Can you do a thr First Sino Japanese War please? That was an important conflict.

[@brett4264]

Good video. Cheers!

[@alagass6466]

Not gonna lie that short Guam story made me laugh.
Hello sir may we have some Gunpowder??

[@robertmosher7418]

In the US we don't call it the US-Philippine war. We call it the Philippine Insurection.
I bet that's what the English monarchy called our War for Independence....the American Insurection. They would have been correct.

[@cubeflinger]

I enjoyed this. Didn't even mean to click on it. Nice work.

[@subpump2823]

It's nice seeing different view points on history. You're take is much more American aggressors than it seems to me and others on this war.

[@RealMillennialPerspective]

They threw down 15 rounds per gun, then ate breakfast before finishing them off 😂😂☠️

[@johnreinburg859]

Interesting video of a bygone empire, and our relationship with Cuba. Thanks Simon!

[@vitorpereira9515]

Don't count on that buddy. If the crisis of the third century didn't put an end on the Roman Empire, and the An Lushan Rebellion didn't destroy the Tang dynasty. It won't be Trump who will end USA.

[@trevorsthegreatest5642]

I love your vids, a ton of interesting details and you get it out fast and to the point all while touching on majority of the important info! I would suggest adding in more maps with locations of battles and maybe some pictures of these locations weather it be current or if that specific time period! Either way I love history and the way you tell a story therefore you have a like and subscribed to support your channel out of me. Keep up the awesome work. We know it’s not easy!

[@MrTexasDan]

There's a great story in Ambrose's book on Roosevelt ... after taking Kettle Hill, he gathered his Rough Riders together and organized an attack on the next hill. Roosevelt running out ahead of his men, and under heavy fire from those darn Spanish Mausers, didn't realize that his men had recognized the death trap, and had turned to retreat. Roosevelt at some point noticed that he was standing alone in the middle of the field and was rapidly becoming the sole focus of the Spanish fire. That's when he decided to turn around and scoot.
Brave? oh yeah
Total F'ing Lunatic? check.

[@rachaelsdaddontdrink]

Nah... Total badass and genius...

[@clintonwalls3642]

Roosevelt was a sham he's a lying sack of crap. He didn't no his butt from a hole in the ground about fighting. If it wasn't for the u.s black calvary (BUFFALO SOLDIERS) Roosevelt and his rough riders would surely been killed over there. Roosevelt and his rough riders ARE A JOKE they did nothing of any importance. LEARN THE TRUTH

[@hilarymckinnon5424]

Tried to send this but it got cut in half: I just wanted to ask if the Spanish were using a Mauser type rifle of their own manufacture or were they actually of German construction? - There is another story that tells of logs being used as fake guns aboard at least one of the Spanish Cruisers and the U.S. Marines having to be landed to protect the Spanish from insurgence and tribal natives (that didn't get the memo) that I don't think was mentioned, along with quite a few others it seems. But as a light introduction the video is a start...It seems you have taken the time. Recently I had come across a video where TR was quoted as calling it "A splendid little war" by an English medicine man - DR. Phd...whatevr...but you got it pretty well summed up - what could be better? A couple dozen cowboys a couple companies of the Buffalo Soldiers, all getting paid less than their opponents, probably...maybe an extra nip of 151 rum if they are lucky. A short boat ride home splendid, splended all around. Sort of. The rifle was the only real question. - I hope you get it. And I wish you all a good day. Hopefully to be used at a good time.

[@MrTexasDan]

@@hilarymckinnon5424 German manufacture ... by several companies.

[@sgtmayhem7567]

Teddy was top tier manly man.

[@JunkPhuJP]

Teddy basically repeating every CS:Go player’s request. “Okay I’ll go first, you back me up. Now you’d better not leave me alone. I mean it!”

[@MrTmm97]

Learn something new every day! Battle of Guantanamo Bay….. I wonder who won… hmmmmmm 🧐

[@darkchocolate1083]

You should’ve mentioned that during the battle Joseph Wheeler said "Let's go, boys! We've got the damn Yankees on the run again!"

[@mattcromwell4308]

Forgot who he was fighting? Force of habit? That's hilarious lmao

[@Angel_Gomez]

0:20 that's the extension of the Empire at the end of the XIXth Century. If you want to put a map of all territories under the Spanish Empire you should put, also, Portugal (part of Spain from the invasion of Felipe II till 1640), the Netherlands, Belgium, Rosellon, Franco Condado, ...

[@matthewsierleja2193]

Olympia!

[@drewlovely2668]

I love the long ones

[@aboynius]

Really great video, entertaining and educational

[@P-C-Principle]

Love the content! Keep up the hard work Simon

[@cindyhammond5573]

This channel needs maps.

[@doomy_mcdoomerson]

Uh, Simon, you kind of contradicted yourself. In the section on the Battle of Kettle Hill, you said America had over a 1,000 casualties. Then at the end you say America only had 400 casualties across the whole war.

[@sydhenderson6753]

400 (combat) DEATHS not casualties. There were another 1662 wounded and 11 captured. This doesn't count a couple of thousand who died of disease, If you add it all together 2446 dead and 4119 casualities (including death from all causes).

[@GUSCRAWF0RD]

9:14 played by Jeff Daniels in the movie 🍿

[@dracovolans319]

Ah the good ol' Costco Well...good pizza and samples😜

[@frankunderbush]

Ah yes, the news media saying who are the "good guys bad guys" and their audience slurping it up. Not much has changed on that front.

[@WatcherMovie008]

Slight incorrection. The US were not using black powder rifles. They were using the Norwegian Krag-Jorgenson Rifle which was smokeless but was chambered for the American 30-40 Krag round, which was underpowered compare to most other rifles at the time. The Spanish on the other hand were using 1892/93 Mauser rifles that were chambered in the famous/infamous 7x57mm Mauser which not only had the stopping power, but outranged the 30-40 Krag round by hundreds of meters. The comparison wasn't even fair between the two and this is just the cartridge we're talking about. Rifle wise, the Mauser was more sleek, elegant, it Mauser style bolt action meant precise and smooth chambering between shot after shot, allowing the rifleman to add continuous fire as long as he can keep the rifle loaded. The Krag on the other hand had a curve bolt action that was clunky, and it unique magazine and it feeding system was designed to in theory, allow the rifleman to save the extra 4-5 rounds by keeping it in the magazine and then treating the rifle as a single shot, loading one at a time and only in emergency situation would you unlock the magazine to allow feeding into the chamber. It was woefully complicated and was a headache to work through. After the battle the US would capture many Spanish Mausers and would reverse engineer the design into the 1903 Springfield, this time chambered in a more powerful .30-03 cartridge that was similar to the 7x57mm Mauser but the round be improved upon again and would finally be accepted with the now recognizable .30-06 cartridge.

[@BavarianHobbit]

How many hours a day do you work man? You have so many channels and you upload regularly on all of them.
Do you work like 16 hours a day? I am honestly astonished by the amount of work you put out. Surely you have a lot of editors but god damn.

[@brandonjade2146]

Thats what happens when u do something you love

[@ritemolawbks8012]

This was a great documentary. It should help counter the misconception about the United States only becoming an imperialist superpower after *1945.* Both the US and British Empire have a controversial past as a colonial powers in the Pacific, Indo-Pacific, and Southeast Asia. The foreign policy doctrine focused on business interests, natural resources, and patrolling trade routes as the "world's police" began at the end of the 19th century.
It may be due to the US and UK's shared language, culture, economic and legal systems, and the fact that London was more focused on the German Confederation's military, economic, and colonial expansion; but the US was able to fill the void left by the British Empire without triggering a direct military conflict.

[@MCK3274]

Excellent synopsis of the Spanish American War.

[@theleo91386]

US forces were using a multi shot bolt action by this point and smokeless powder. The Mauser had it's advantages, but it's not like the US forces were using the same rifles as Custer at the Little Bighorn.

[@robertalpy]

I think the Cuban rebels sank the Maine to ensure American support.
As Cicero would say...Cui bono?

[@beachboy0505]

29:54
German Mauser 1893
bolt action rifle used by the Spanish forces.
Game changer, every country license built their version afterwards.

[@MrTexasDan]

Yes, 5 years later the Americans developed their own Mauser version, the M1903 Springfield ... under President Theodore Roosevelt.

[@alexandermartinez6600]

This is the first documentary that actually speaks about the American attacks on Puerto Rico. This channel is great,and unbiased. Truly informative.

[@tommycochran1019]

The American Revolution established the US as a country. The Mexican-American War established the US as a major power in the Western Hemisphere. But the Spanish-American War, that war was the one that showed the US had moved to a major global power that you could no longer ignore.

[@exudeku]

Philippines: YES! FREEDOM!
America: Freedom? Maybe under my new management!

[@Shotgun979]

My friend painted Teddy charging up San Juan hill on horse with DMX riding a 4 wheeler I bought it for 40

[@Superbl0bby]

Hey Simon I know you’re probably just about exhausted from covering American conflicts but the War of 1812 would be an interesting one to cover. More specifically the battle of New Orleans.

[@Dan19870]

Second, however rather than New Orleans, I'd like to hear about how the Canadians burned the White House to the ground.

[@jjdelft3216]

Rather a non American conflict

[@Superbl0bby]

@@Dan19870 I guess he should just cover the whole darn war ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[@PeruvianPotato]

@@Dan19870 *British
Canada wouldn't be a thing until around 56 years later