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Okla-homey
7/25/2006, 05:43 AM
July 25, 1898 Puerto Rico invaded

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108 years ago on this day during the Spanish-American War, U.S. forces launch their invasion of Puerto Rico, the 108-mile-long, 40-mile-wide island that was one of Spain's two principal possessions in the Caribbean.

On July 18 1898, General Nelson A. Miles, commander of the invading forces, received orders to sail for Puerto Rico to land his troops. On July 21, a convoy of 3,300 soldiers and nine transports escorted by USS Massachusetts sailed for Puerto Rico from Guantánamo, Cuba. On July 25, U.S. troops landed at Guánica, Puerto Rico and took over the island with little resistance

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Nelson A. Miles. Miles was the only man to have served as a commander in the Civil War, the Indian Wars, and the Spanish-American War. In his late 70s he volunteered to serve his country in World War I as well, but was turned down by President Woodrow Wilson.

With little resistance and only seven deaths, U.S. troops under Miles were able to secure the island by mid-August. After the signing of an armistice with Spain, American troops raised the U.S. flag over the island, formalizing U.S. authority over its one million inhabitants.

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San Jose Church after U.S. bombarment of San Juan, Puerto Rico

In December, the Treaty of Paris was signed, ending the Spanish-American War and officially approving the cession of Puerto Rico to the United States.

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US Kentucky Volunteers regiment in "Porto Rico" 1898

In the first three decades of its rule, the U.S. government made efforts to Americanize its new possession, including granting full U.S. citizenship to Puerto Ricans in 1917 and considering a measure that would make English the island's official language. However, during the 1930s, a nationalist movement led by the Popular Democratic Party won wide support across the island, and further U.S. assimilation was successfully opposed.

Beginning in 1948, Puerto Ricans could elect their own governor, and in 1952 the U.S. Congress approved a new Puerto Rican constitution that made the island an autonomous U.S. commonwealth, with its citizens retaining American citizenship. The constitution was formally adopted by Puerto Rico on this day in 1952, the 54th anniversary of the U.S. invasion.

Movements for Puerto Rican statehood, along with lesser movements for Puerto Rican independence, have won supporters on the island, but popular referendums in 1967 and 1993 demonstrated that the majority of Puerto Ricans still supported their special status as a U.S. commonwealth -- mostly because without Uncle Sam banking them, they would be as poor as all the other Caribbean islanders.

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Currently, the world's most famous Puerto Rican

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Formerly, the world's most famous Puerto Rican.

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OklahomaTuba
7/25/2006, 08:27 AM
Its no wonder Spain's flag is yellow. They seem to **** themselves anytime they are challenged.

Okla-homey
7/25/2006, 08:29 AM
Its no wonder Spain's flag is yellow. They seem to **** themselves anytime they are challenged.

They were studs in the days of Cortez though. Those conquistadores were some bad mo-fo's. You should read some accounts of Cortez' conquests. The guy had huevos the size of soccer balls.

OklahomaTuba
7/25/2006, 08:35 AM
They were studs in the days of Cortez though. Those conquistadores were some bad mo-fo's. You should read some accounts of Cortez' conquests. The guy had huevos the size of soccer balls.

Maybe so, but it doesn't take much to bat around a bunch of leaf wearing spear boys when you have gun powder and every dieses known to man on your side. I imagine it was a lot like the "bedlam" football game.

;)

Okla-homey
7/25/2006, 08:39 AM
Maybe so, but it doesn't take much to bat around a bunch of leaf wearing spear boys when you have gun powder and every dieses known to man on your side. I imagine it was a lot like the "bedlam" football game.

;)

Dood,

He conquered an empire of about a million warlike Aztecs with 200 guys and single shot muzzleloaders. I don't care who ya are...that's studly.

Vaevictis
7/25/2006, 10:27 AM
He conquered an empire of about a million warlike Aztecs with 200 guys and single shot muzzleloaders. I don't care who ya are...that's studly.

Other than the whole Quetzacoatl thing, he probably ended up getting his heart cut out, right? (iirc)

Frozen Sooner
7/25/2006, 10:33 AM
Didn't hurt that the Central Americans kept falling for the whole "I'm an honored visitor-BANG!" trick over and over.

Okla-homey
7/25/2006, 11:52 AM
Didn't hurt that the Central Americans kept falling for the whole "I'm an honored visitor-BANG!" trick over and over.

Why do you hate PSYOPS?

mdklatt
7/25/2006, 12:03 PM
Other than the whole Quetzacoatl thing, he probably ended up getting his heart cut out, right? (iirc)

No, you're thinking of Temple of Doom.