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President Mckinley's Explosion Of Cuba In 1973
The situation with Spain was already tense, but I believe that the explosion of the U.S.S. Maine was the final straw that led to the invasion of Cuba in 1898. On November 27, 1897, Fitzhugh Lee forwarded an account to Washington D.C. to describe the living conditions in Cuba. Then on December 3, 1897, Lee sent a letter 3 months before the explosion, requesting war ships at Key West and Dry Tortugas. Lee also requested that a coal station would be established in Dry Tortugas. On April 11, 1898, President McKinley went before Congress to ask for a declaration of war. The reasons that President McKinley provides are issues that went on before the explosion and he also uses the explosion as a reason.
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