To: MTBobcat
We entered WW1 with the USS Main getting hit with a mine.
To: midwest_hiker
The USS Maine incident led to the Spanish-American War. The sinking of the Lusitania led to our entry into WWI.
12 posted on
01/21/2024 12:53:05 PM PST by
Army Air Corps
(Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
To: midwest_hiker
We entered WW1 with the USS Main getting hit with a mine.WTF?? You need to go back and read your history books.
The event was used to trigger the Spanish American war.
13 posted on
01/21/2024 12:55:30 PM PST by
pfflier
To: midwest_hiker
That was the Spanish American war 1898.
27 posted on
01/21/2024 2:07:24 PM PST by
Mouton
(150MTs in the right location will not solve our problems now.)
To: midwest_hiker
We entered WW1 with the USS Main getting hit with a mine.
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The Maine was a United States Navy ship that sank in Havana Harbor on February 15, 1898
WWI began 16 years later.
31 posted on
01/21/2024 2:50:39 PM PST by
PIF
(They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
To: midwest_hiker
Yep, just a couple decades before the Germans attacked Pearl Harbor.
33 posted on
01/21/2024 3:37:39 PM PST by
Jacquerie
(ArticleVBlog.com)
To: midwest_hiker
On February 15, 1898, an explosion of unknown origin sank the battleship U.S.S.
Maine in the Havana, Cuba harbor, killing 266 of the 354 crew members.
34 posted on
01/21/2024 3:43:29 PM PST by
Grampa Dave
(Trust no one, who is not a proven and valued/trusty one or a family member or a long time friend! )
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