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The conflict in the Pacific was one-sided. At the declaration of war, Commodore Dewey, commander of America's Asiatic Squadron based in Hong Kong was ordered to race his six ships to the Philippines. He arrived at Manila Bay on May 1 and found the obsolete Spanish fleet anchored in the bay. It was a one-sided battle.
George Dewey, (born Dec. 26, 1837, Montpelier, Vt., U.S.âdied Jan. 16, 1917, Washington, D.C.), U.S. naval commander who defeated the Spanish fleet at the Battle of Manila Bay during the Spanish-American War (1898). A graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy at Annapolis, Md., in 1858, Dewey was commissioned a lieutenant three years later. In the U.S. Civil War (1861â65), he served with Union naval forces in the battles of New Orleans (1862) and Port Hudson and Donaldsonville, La. (1863).