Название: Florida in the Spanish-American War
Автор: Joseph Knetsch, Nick Wynne
Издательство: The History Press
ISBN: 1609490886
Год: 2011
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 176
Размер: 10,9 МБ
Язык: Английский
Florida began as a Spanish colony, with governing headquarters in Havana, Cuba. It is fitting, then, that the state played such a large role in the Spanish-American War. As a base of training and combat operations, Florida's involvement was crucial to the war effort. Join trusted historians Joe Knetsch and Nick Wynne as they log a fascinating chapter in Florida's history--a time when Roosevelt's Rough Riders prepared for battle at Tampa bases, when battleships departed from south Florida ports to avenge the sunken USS Maine and when a nation looked to the Sunshine State to help unite America around a common cause, even as the nation still struggled to come to terms with the Civil War and Reconstruction