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Definition of Spanish war
1. Noun. A war between the United States and Spain in 1898.
Generic synonyms: War, Warfare
Terms within: Manila Bay, Santiago, Santiago De Cuba
Lexicographical Neighbors of Spanish War
Literary usage of Spanish war
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Spanish-American War by Russell Alexander Alger (1901)
"Well, in the days which tried the souls of the sensational journals in the Spanish
War, just back of where you bivouacked the commissary department had a ..."
2. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1920)
"spanish war VETERANS, a society organized by men who took part in the ...
Although the number of killed and wounded in the spanish war was not large, ..."
3. History of Friedrich II. of Prussia, Called Frederick the Great: Called by Thomas Carlyle (1873)
"The spanish war being of moment to us here, we will let our Constitutional
Historian explain, in his own dialect, How it was so vital to England ; and shall ..."
4. History of Friedrich II, of Prussia: Called Frederick the Great by Thomas Carlyle (1900)
"... Carthagena proving the evanescent point of that sad business), Succinct History
of the spanish war, which began in 1739 ; and ended— When did it end ? ..."
5. The Works of Thomas Carlyle: (complete). by Thomas Carlyle (1897)
"The Pitt Catastrophe: hmv the Peace-Negotiation went of by Explosion ; how Pitt
withdrew (3d October, 1761), and there came a spanish war nevertheless. ..."
6. From Harrison to Harding: A Personal Narrative, Covering a Third of a by Arthur Wallace Dunn (1922)
"""TWO very important results growing out of the spanish war were the annexation
of Hawaii and the construction of the Panama canal. ..."
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