This Mysterious Event Led to the Spanish-American War
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- Опубліковано 11 січ 2018
- In early 1898, the USS Maine sailed into Havana harbor as a show of support for the Cuban revolutionaries. Two weeks later, it would explode in inexplicable circumstances lighting the fuse for the Spanish-American War.
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USA:Hey you guy sunk the USS Maine!
Spain:What?No we didn't.
USA :COWABUNGA IT IS
The same thing happened with Vietnam. A ship that never existed sank and LBJ did what Kennedy refused to do, paying dearly for it a while before.
Never existed? Are you implying that the USS Maine never existed? Are you high?
Megalodon don’t waste your time on these idiots.
@@megalodon7916 i believe he is talking about Golf of Tonkin incident
@@miroslavtordaji1675 That actually did happen, it was just blown out of proportion in the official report. The NSA reported two incidents collectively known as the Gulf of Tonkin incident, one on August 2 and one on August 4, 1964. We know for certain that the first incident, in which three North Vietnamese torpedo boats attacked the destroyer USS Maddox, did occur. Maddox was reinforced by four aircraft from the Ticonderoga, and the battle ended when the torpedo boats withdrew after all three received damage, four North Vietnamese sailors were killed, and 6 wounded. The Maddox and one of the aircraft was damaged, but no Americans were killed or hurt. The second incident, while officially reported as an attack, was actually just Americans ships firing on false radar images. It was reported as an attack even though no one could confirm an attack occurred and no evidence of wreckage or other traces of an enemy presence could be found. Today, Vietnam has acknowledged that the first attack happened, but confirmed there were no North Vietnamese boats anywhere near American ships on August 4.
@@megalodon7916 i know what happened there(no need to quote Wikipedia).... Its quite similar to USS Maine aftermath: attack that never happened was used as an excuse for military involment/attack
"Liberate" cuba lmao
Only to be annexed by the U.S. and then achieve true independence in 1902 when even then they got a dictator obedient to the Americas until 1957. Sadly then only to remain a puppet, this time of the USSR. Only in the 21th century has Cuba become truly free.
@@markos9531 The people are still slaves of the Castro family.
@Tessellation not all cubans fought against Spain and supported independence; in fact, 2/3 of the island's population was loyalist to Spain, either wanting to keep Cuba as an integral spanish province or as a more autonomous part of Spain.
I'm a Mainer and I've always been told that it was a Spanish mine. It's nice to know that that is a thing my school got wrong.
In spanish schools they tell us that this was a false flag.
@@VitalMusic217 Both are wrong.
@@megalodon7916 IT was a false flag operation, just like all the times the US has done it.
@@15241 No, it wasn’t.
@@megalodon7916 enlighten us, please.
"mysterious"
sounds like one of the first false flags.
It is.
It was not. Ignore the idiotic conspiracy theorists. The USS Maine was a poorly designed battleship. She was originally designed to be an armored cruiser, but she was too slow to be one, barely able to make over sixteen knots, and even then only if conditions were ideal. Thus, she was reclassified as a battleship, but even then her guns weren’t as powerful and her armor wasn’t as thick as other battleships. The end result was a horrible ship that combined features of an armored cruiser and a battleship but couldn’t compete with other ships of either type. If that weren’t enough, the coal used on her had a nasty habit of producing highly flammable gas mixtures, and safety features to prevent a fire were virtually non-existent. Finally, to top it all off, the powder room was right next to the coal storage area, and it was only separated by a weak bulkhead that had a gap in it. It was not a safe ship, and it’s pretty obvious from the evidence that the explosion was caused by a fire in the coal bunker which quickly ignited the powder.
@@megalodon7916 it was accident the American press used to press for war.
It isn’t. It was an accident that was taken up by the media.
i love how they used the tune "Urgency" by Helen Jane Long as the soundtrack for this video.
Honestly this is probably my favorite war to read and learn about.
So the Maine is not so much to remember....
Remember how a dishonest press used an industrial accident to make a profit deepblue64.
Those who forget history are bound to repeat it. Those who remember history are born to lead it.
Yellow Jurnalism on both sides had whipped tensions to the boiling point, and war was pretty much inevitable by 1898 over the tensions between the US and Spain over Cuba, the Maine Disaster was the spark that lit the fuze, even if the Maine didn't explode all it would've taken were trigger happy US, Spanish, and Cuban soldiers fighting in the streets to cause a war to breakout
0:44 That disheveled look is gold!
The most golden part is that he wasn't going for the "disheveled" look at all!
@@zackstrong8034 6 yrs ago, hmm? Ok now I see it again, his glasses are on at quite a tilt.
Can someone explain to me why the Maine sinking after an explosion caused the U.S. to sent the fleet to the Phillipians? I have read that the Maine blew up due to coal fire. Didn't anyone investigate what happened before we went to war? Why was the Maine there in the 1st place? I may not fully understand the politics so I have these questions. Did the U.S. want to acquire other countries as possessions? I guess I will do more reading!☆☆
Well, you see, America had a lot of interests in Cuba and the Philipines. They had invested in a lot of business and they were highly strategic: by having domains in the Caribbean, a building of a channel to connect with the Pacific would be easier, and from the Philipines, they could trade with China. Indeed, during this century, the United States made many offers to Spain to buy its colonies, which obviously it rejected.
Spain at that time was a very weak country and it had a lot of independentists movements in both colonies, so the Americans saw it as an opportunity to support these movements to expel Spanish authorities and settle there. During the XIXth Century, American journals such as the "New York Journal" of Hearst published fake news about Spanish actions over the rebels (this is considered to be the origin of the "yellow press"), portraying Spain as a semi medieval and tyrannical country. It was part of the American "manifest destiny" to take part and expand his progress and "democracy". While they claimed to be neutral, they provided economical and material support to the Cuban rebels by illegal dealing.
So, in 1898, Maine, a battleship, arrived at La Habana (a town that was in peace despite the Second Cuban Independence War), theoretically to protect American citizens and interests in the island. They arrived without noticing it to the Spanish authorities, but still let them in, as Spain didn't want to enter a war with the United States, which they would surely lose. Despite the cordial relations between captain Sigsbee and the town authorities, the American press went on with its Anti-Spanish propaganda (which was answered with Spanish Anti-American propaganda too); and when the explosion happened, it was assumed that it was a Spanish aggression.
So the war began, in three different places: Cuba, Porto Rico, and the Philipines, the three remaining main Spanish overseas territories, and, well, you already know how it went.
Most researchers point that the explosion was due to a malfunction in the boiling room, and not a Spanish mine.
The Maine was going to be scrapped because it had a serious design flaw: the main guns had been placed on something similar to balconies on both sides of the ship, not on the axis of the ship resting on the keel but resting on the shell (the frames and the iron plates that formed the hull, not welded together but joined by rivets). The Maine's two main problems were that those gun balconies prevented another ship from coming alongside her to supply coal, so she couldn't receive coal being at sea far from land, and another problem was that the gunshots of the cannons caused strong vibrations that were transmitted to the lining of the sides of the ship, loosening the rivets and separating the iron plates, causing a lot of water to enter. In addition, the steam engine was already very obsolete.
When it had been decided to scrap it, someone had the idea of sending it to the bay of Havana "to defend the rights of North American citizens who were in Cuba" ...how?
The ship appeared in Havana...and fortunately the Spanish Governor of Cuba (who was a Freemason) INVITED ALL HIS OFFICERS TO A RECEPTION DANCE, which all the officers attended, and fortunately that is when it exploded, when there was no officer on board. Faced with the accusation of a Spanish attack, the Spaniards said that "no fish had died, something that would have happened if the explosion had been outside the ship, from which it was deduced that the explosion had been into the ship", however the Americans ordered attack the Spanish ships "without declaring war them before, (like Japonese in Pearl Harbor!)", Americans attacked several Spanish ships...and only two weeks later they declared war to Spain with retroactive effects (the prize was to put them up for sale at public auctions enormous extensions of Cuba, more than half of Cuba, certificates for cultivation, which were property of the Kingdom of Spain and in which only cattle were allowed to graze but not to cultivate and which after the war were bought for a very low price by wealthy Cuban masons and North Americans)
The Philippines were a Spanish colony. So were Puerto Rico and Guam. Imperialism: all the cool kids were doing it.
My great-grandfather was injured during this six week war and later succumbed to his injuries.
I'm glad
@@alfredprieto1294
Your comment reflects badly on you, rather than him or I...
@@b_uppy I don't care. I have no shame like your people.
@@alfredprieto1294
Put some clothes on, you need it...
@@b_uppy Sorry for your loss
It wasn't just an ordinary fire in a coal bunker. It was an industrial accident where a cascade of unfortunate circumstances starting with an extended painting project that began in the large forward coal bunkers, which added to the other circumstances, created a chain of events which led to a disastrously quick and hot if not explosive fire in the coal bunker which ignited the forward powder magazine just after the crew had laid down to sleep, the crew of course, having their sleeping quarters just over the magazine. It is all there in the testimony and record but no one wanted to or had the expertise to ask the additional questions needed to focus the investigation and develop the facts that would have proven embarrassing to the nascent New Steel Navy....it was easier to blame the Spanish. The fact is that the Spanish had it right from the beginning but their opinion was ignored. One of the forward six pounder deck guns that was found when the Maine was raised still shows the damage of the explosion. It is on outside display on the Statehouse grounds in South Carolina. If memory served it was the port forward six pounder. The starboard forward six pounder was in a shack at the White Plains dump, but I think was recognized and saved from oblivion.
First use of machine guns, though.
How did that work out, USA?
Why does the historian look like he's giving a personal recollection of what happened
This channel teach better than teacher.
That's our country 00:58 but why can't we view your full episode :( so unfair.
So, Puerto Rico is part of the USA because a coal bunker caught fire. Noice bloody noice
Conquer and Command !!! Playing Spanish tunes for the locals... Victorious : )
Incredible and double incredible but great !!🇺🇸
Pretty sure it wasn't in support of revolutionaries but to help US citizens that were trapped in Cuba by the conflict.
imperialist war
As early as 1895, Winston Churchill was already gathering information on the Spanish in Cuba. The main feature of which was fighting "insurgents" ( Cubans who wanted to gain their independence from Spain) while using the role of a journalist as his cover. The psychopathic Churchill came to New York and said that if there wasn't intervention by the U.S in Cuba, the end result would be another black republic in the Caribbean. Of course the reference to another black republic was Haiti
who had been the first to drive out the colonist French from Haitian soil...
The legend of how the war started was a Spanish man taking a shit in a bush.
So the guy in the preview pic with the rifle had nothing to do with it? It's just clickbait to another video about the Maine? Allow me to leave right after my thumbs-down.
ang kasaysayan
Americans always liberating things hey ahahahahahaha
Unfortunately, the US became the spearhead for any conflict initiated by the United Nations. If the UN voted for military involvement, then the US was tasked with leading the charge. Korea was a good example for that.
false flag
pov: honors history homework
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Wow just like the gulf of Tonkin 🤔
yep most wars have started this way throughout history and the children are lied to
Not exactly. This was an unfortunate accident that the media and a paranoid, increasingly anti-Spanish government and American public believed was an attack. The Gulf of Tonkin was a minor incident that involved a small attack on a US destroyer by three North Vietnamese torpedo boats that the NSA reported as multiple attacks on multiple vessels on two separate occasions. The attack happened, it was just blown out of proportion in the report.
The Turner C Joy, currently resides at the shipyard in Bremerton, WA.
Just america causing trouble it wasn't an accident
So disappointed in this Smithsonian. There was no Battle of Manila. It was just a show, a ruse, a mock battle if you want to call it that. Our country was sold to the USA by Spain even before the fleet of Dewey arrived. It is called "Treaty of Paris of 1898" wherein the Spain ceased sovereignty over Cuba to declare its own independence, and turnover Puerto Rico and Guam to the USA. Philippines on the other hand was sold for $20,000,000 to the USA.
It is such a shame that a renowned pool of knowledge and history such as you Smithsonian has very inaccurate details of facts by presenting this video. Shame.
330 men
HAVANA OO NANA
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@@camaraco1234 HAVANA OO NANA
I left my heart out in Havana oo nana🤪
Our press has come three-sixty and they are being inflammatory again. Shameful.
Puntos yankies arriba España pirartas
MonTEEho not MonTOEho
NOOO!!!1 YOU CANT JUST HIT AN AMERICAN SHIP AND EXPECT THEM TO GO AWAY!!!!11!!
Spanish: haha ship go brrr
you really believe Spain attacked???? Think dude
Spain didnt do anything
It was an accident...
Spain didnt hit them, USA was looking for made up bs reasons to attack Spain
Spain was wayyy to weak at the time to start a war lol
Japanese fleet at the battle of Tsushima: pathetic!
Second..
God's Justice ??? The battleship USS Maine sank on Feb 15 = 215. Age of the USA was 215 years old, when the US Subic Bay Naval Base was closed down in Dec 1991 by an erupting and very violent volcano Mt Pinatubo, as 1991 - 1776 = 215.
Legend has it, the spanish sold the philippines to the americans.
The spanish were forced* to give the Philippines to the Americans in exchange of money
with a gun at their head, plomo o plata
Lafayette, Hero of the American revolution, brought 12.000 soldiers, got all the credit. Spain sent 20.000 troops to Pensacola, zero credit. A nice payback... taking cuba, Puerto Rico and the Philippines, bulding false pretexts over false flags. I do love the US and thank them everiday for defeating comunism and nazis and i hope they prevale over China, y pray for it. But the way the US behaved with Spain was disgusting, dirty, totally opposed of what you would expect from the greatest nation on earth (which they are nevertheless) How many movies have been made about Bernardo de Galvez? Zero. Obama made him honorary citizen...230 years later. Why? Because Spain was Catholic and the US mostly puritans or Freemasons.
Spain sent troops to Pensacola; Florida went back to being Spanish.
Also, the two wars were more than a century apart.
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First.
Spanish will 100% win if they deploy their capital ships.
we had ZERO chances, was a false flag
@@diegoapalategui579 It wasn’t a false flag. It was an accident on a very poorly designed ship with virtually no safety features to prevent an explosion should the fuel be ignited.
@@megalodon7916 Sure, sure, that is why they created the environment for the war before the false flag through Randolph Hearst newspapers, that is why they anchored a battleship in Spanish waters without permission, and that is why they made up a false Spanish attack refusing to investigate the cause...and finally that is why they declared a war on Spain right afterwards, not only in Cuba but also in the Philippines and Puerto Rico, which they took over. Come on...
@@diegoapalategui579 No one created the environment for war. Hearst was simply guilty of yellow journalism. The American public was already sympathetic to the Cuban cause, and had been long before the war. Plus, Cubans in the United States were waging a propaganda campaign to garner support. The most significant group was the “Cuba Libre” movement led by José Martí until his death in 1895. Another was Tomás Estrada Palma, who lived for a time in exile in the United States. The Maine was sent to Cuba amidst rising tensions to protect American businesses and citizens in Cuba. As I said, she was a poorly designed ship. Her fuel was highly combustible, and there was little separating the fuel from the powder. Also, there was an investigation by a board of inquiry led by Captain William T. Sampson. They concluded an external explosion caused the powder magazines to ignite. Later investigations refuted the claim, but by then the war was over.
Spanish Navy had one unfinished battleship (didn't have all its main armament yet). They had no capital ships to deploy. They sent all their best cruisers and it didn't matter.
By the late 1800s, Spain was a shell of its former glory. It never really recovered from the Napoleonic Wars until after Franco.
in the philippines we were told that before this happened the spaniards were looking down on the americans, we were told that the spaniards were arrogant and questioned the president of the usa (whoever he is at that time). and so it came down to two white nations battling for supremacy.
They lied to you, mate.
@@dyowzhars9400 like if we didnt know that
false flag