Council Bluffs is a city in and the county seat of Pottawattamie County, Iowa, United States and is on the east bank of the Missouri River across from what is now the much larger city of Omaha, Nebraska.
The Spanish-American War, 1898. The Spanish-American War of 1898 ended Spainâs colonial empire in the Western Hemisphere and secured the position of the United States as a Pacific power.
The Philippine-American War, 1899â1902. After its defeat in the Spanish-American War of 1898, Spain ceded its longstanding colony of the Philippines to the United States in the Treaty of Paris.