Library of Congress Congress approved President McKinley's request for a declaration of war on April 25, 1898; yet the Spanish ... slipped into Manila Bay on May 1 and destroyed the obsolete ...

The Declaration Was Not Initially Recognized by the US The 1898 declaration of independence was not recognized by the United States. Following their victory over Spain in the Battle of Manila Bay ...

Dewey would be victorious in the first combat of the Spanish-American War, the Battle of Manila Bay, on May 1, 1898. Roosevelt himself would become a hero of the war as one of the leaders of the ...