What battleship was sunk in harbor of Havana, Cuba to start the Spanish-American War in 1898?
Spanish–American War and Empire", Prof. Paul Atwood of the University of Massachusetts (Boston) writes: The Spanish–American War was fomented on outright lies and trumped up accusations against the intended enemy. ... War fever in the general population never reached a critical temperature until the accidental sinking of the "USS Maine" was deliberately, and falsely, attributed to Spanish villainy. ... In a cryptic message ... Senator Lodge wrote that 'There may be an explosion any day in Cuba which would settle a great many things. We have got a battleship in the harbor of Havana, and our fleet, which overmatches anything the Spanish
Havana Harbor Real Fuerza and San Salvador de la Punta Fortress, both constructed in sixteenth century, sit on the western side of the harbor in Old Havana. The Battle of Havana was a two-month siege of the harbor defenses by the British in 1762. The sinking of the U.S. battleship "Maine" in Havana Harbor in 1898 was the immediate cause of the Spanish–American War. In January 1898 the USS "Maine", the largest vessel to come out of an American shipyard, was dispatched to Cuba to protect US interests there. At the time more than 8,000 US citizens resided in the country, and