7-Dewey's report of the battle of Manila Bay received by Navy Department; the President promotes him to be Acting Admiral.

9-Congress votes thanks to Dewey, who is promoted to the rank of Rear Admiral.

10 The immune volunteer bill finally passed.

11-The torpedo-boat Winslow disabled in a fight with shore batteries at Cardenas; the battle of Cienfuegos caused by American ships cutting cables.

12-San Juan, Porto Rico, bombarded by Admiral Sampson's squadron.

yard.

18-The battleship Alabama privately launched from Cramp's ship

21-The cruiser Charleston sails for Manila and the monitor Monterey also ordered thither.

23-Admiral Cervera's Spanish squadron "bottled up" in Santiago

harbor.

25-The President issues his second call for volunteers, asking for 75,000; the first installment sail from San Francisco for Manila. 31-First bombardment of Santiago forts takes place.

JUNE.

3-Lieutenant Hobson and seven other heroes sink the Merrimac in Santiago harbor.

4-The Senate passes the war revenue bill; Lieutenant Carranza's stolen letter published.

5 The army of invasion embarks at Tampa for Santiago; the Spanish cruiser Reina Mercedes hit during the bombardment of Santiago forts.

6-Carranza and Du Bosc, heads of the Spanish spy system, arrested in Montreal.

bay.

7-Caimanero bombarded.

10-United States marines land in force at Crest Hill, Guantanamo

11-Marines at Crest Hill repulse a Spanish attempt to dislodge

them.

13-The war revenue bill signed by the President; Vesuvius dynamite guns tested on Santiago fortifications.

14-Americans and Cubans at Guantanamo bay surprise and capture the Spanish guerrilla camp.

20-Transports with General Shafter's army on board arrive off

Santiago.

22-Americans capture Guam, one of the Ladrone islands; the St. Paul disables the Spanish torpedo-boat Terror at San Juan.

24-The battle of Guasimas won by United States cavalry and Rough Riders.

27-President McKinley recommends to Congress rewards for Lieutenant Hobson, Lieutenant Newcomb, and Naval Cadet Powell. 28 The blockade extended on the southern coast of Cuba and to San Juan, Porto Rico.

29-General Merritt sails for Manila.

30-The first American expedition to the Philippine islands arrives at Cavite.

JULY.

1-The two days' battle before Santiago begins; Spaniards driven from outer works into the city.

3-Cervera's fleet destroyed while attempting to escape from Santiago harbor.

4-The second Philippine expedition rediscovers Wake island.

6 Spanish prisoners of war mutiny on the Harvard; six of them killed. President McKinley issues a war thanksgiving proclamation. 7-Merrimac heroes released by exchange; German interference against insurgents in Subig bay causes Dewey to capture Grande island. 13-Du Bosc leaves Canada for Spain at the urgent request of the Canadian government.

14 General Toral consents to surrender Santiago and Eastern Cuba; surrender effected on the 17th.

17-American fleet destroys ten Spanish vessels in Manzanillo

harbor.

18-General Miles sails from Siboney with the vanguard of the Porto Rico invasion.

20-The contract for deporting Spanish prisoners of war to Spain awarded the Spanish Trans-Atlantic Company.

21-The American fleet captures Nipe harbor and destroys the Spanish cruiser Jorge Juan.

23-The United States transport Wanderer repulsed in an attempt to land men and munitions for insurgents at Bahia Honda.

25--The first Porto Rico expedition, under General Miles, lands at Guanica; General Merritt lands at Cavite.

26 Spain sues for peace through the French Ambassador at Washington.

28-Ponce surrenders.

30-McKinley's terms of peace forwarded to Madrid by French.

Ambassador Cambon.

AUGUST.

4-Shafter's army at Santiago ordered to Montauk Point, L. I. 5-Americans take Guayama, Porto Rico, after a sharp fight. 6-The Porto Rican section of the Cuban Revolutionary party in New York dissolved and superseded by the Patriotic League of Porto Ricans.

6-Americans victorious at Coama, Porto Rico; Spaniards repulsed in their attempt to retake the lighthouse at Cape San Juan.

10-The peace protocol drawn up.

13-The protocol signed by Secretary Day and M. Cambon, the French Ambassador, acting for Spain; suspension of hostilities ordered and blockades lifted; Manzanillo bombarded; a Spanish battery silenced at Assomanta, Porto Rico; Manila stormed and captured by the Americans; natives massacred by Spaniards at Ciales, Porto Rico.

16-Evacuation commissions for Cuba and Porto Rico named. 25-General Shafter leaves Santiago, remainder of his army embarks next day; United States peace commissioners selected. 31-Orders received at Annapolis looking to release of Spanish naval prisoners.

SEPTEMBER.

1-General Shafter arrives at Montauk Point.
3-President McKinley visits Camp Wikoff.

5 The Spanish Cortes assembles.

7-General Miles lands in New York from Porto Rico.

9-The President orders an investigation of the War Department. 10-The Spanish Senate approves the peace protocol.

12-Admiral Cervera and other Spanish naval prisoners sail for

Spain.

13-The Spanish Chamber approves the peace protocol.

14-The Queen Regent signs the protocol, Cortes prorogued.

17-United States peace commissioners sail for Paris.
20-Spanish troops begin to evacuate Porto Rico.

OCTOBER.

1-American and Spanish peace commissioners hold their first joint

session.

10-Americans take full possession of Manzanillo.

13-Chaplain McIntyre of the Oregon convicted by court-martial of offenses against naval discipline; work of the Porto Rican evacuation commissioners completed.

18—The United States assumes sovereignty over the entire island of Porto Rico.

24-Spanish evacuation of Porto Rico complete.

30-The former Spanish cruiser Maria Teresa sails for Hampton

Roads.

31-The United States peace commissioners demand cession of the entire Philippine group.

NOVEMBER.

4-The cruiser Maria Teresa abandoned as a derelict during a storm on her voyage northward.

14-The mutiny of Orden Publico, the Spanish force in Havana, results in the dissolution of that body.

17-The evacuation of Camp Meade completed.

21-The American ultimatum presented to the Spanish peace commissioners.

25-First United States troops land in Havana province.

28-Spain agrees to the American ultimatum for the cession of the Philippines.

30-Blanco leaves Havana for Spain.

DECEMBER.

3-The American flag hoisted over Sancti Spiritus and Trinidad,

Cuba.

10-The peace treaty signed.

11-Three Cubans killed and eleven wounded in a riot with Spaniards in Havana.

14-General Lee arrives in Havana; the Philippine Island Development Association of American Volunteers formed by Astor battery men at Manila.

24-The American peace commissioners submit the treaty to the President.

27-The American evacuation commissioners issue a proclamation to the inhabitants of Cuba.

31-Last day of Spanish sovereignty in the western hemisphere.

Uncle Sam (to Spain)-"You've had your fun, sonny, and now you must pay the price."-Los Angeles Times.