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)..

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.

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

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.

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 -

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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!

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

"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??"

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

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.

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

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.

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).

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.)

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.

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

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

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!

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

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

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

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

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?

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.

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

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.

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

Love the content! Keep up the hard work Simon

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

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

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!

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

Good video. Cheers!

Really great video, entertaining and educational

Glad I found this channel very informative

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

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

Definitely digging these long format videos like on casual criminalist

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 😊

I love the long ones

awesome presentation. thank you.

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.

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.

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.

Excellent program.

That was a totally awesome video.

Good episode

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

The long Warographic videos are great.

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.

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

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

Definitely need the follow up.

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

*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?

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

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

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

HOW HAVE I NEVER SEEN THIS CHANNEL?! I took part in the ‘how many channels will Simon create’ days on business blaze 💀

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.

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.

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.

This is some wild shit. A little comic relief from the Guam thing. Then the flag guy. Love these videos. Go Simon!

Rest in peace to those that passed away.

Excellent synopsis of the Spanish American War.

Ty.

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, ...

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.

Wish you would have Highlighted the work of Jose Marti. He was key in organizing the 1895 war

Do the Taiwan Straight Crises. Topical.

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

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!”

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.

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.

Side projects videos on the USS Olympia ( and on her current neighbors, the USS Bakuna and USS New Jersey) would be very interesting.......

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!"

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.

So your saying that the media was making up sensational headlines! Oh my!

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

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

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

You guys should do one on Joseph Wheeler

Another idea for a video, Battle of Cartagena of 1741.

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