Battle of Manila (1898) all practical purposes, the fall of Manila brought about the end of the Spanish–American War in the Philippines. Merritt and Dewey finally received word of the peace protocol on August 16. Captain Henry Glass of the armored cruiser had accepted the surrender of Guam on June 20, 1898, while "en route" to Manila, and Captain E.D. Taussig of the gunboat claimed Wake Island for the U.S. on January 17, 1899. The war with Spain came to an end, but in February 1899 the Philippine–American War broke out. Tensions between the Filipino forces under Aguinaldo and the American Expeditionary forces were
Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Santiago de Cuba Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Santiago de Cuba The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Santiago de Cuba () (erected 1518 as the Diocese of Baracoa) is a Metropolitan Archdiocese, responsible for the dioceses of Guantánamo-Baracoa, Holguín and Santísimo Salvador de Bayamo y Manzanillo. The diocese's name was changed to the Diocese of Santiago de Cuba. It was a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Seville in Spain until 12 February 1546 when it became a suffragan of the Diocese of Santo Domingo (now Archdiocese of Santo Domingo) in the Dominican Republic. In 1803, the see was elevated to an archdiocese. The archdiocese is