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USS MAINE

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 * [|GlobalSecurity] This website has a lot of information about the first Maine. It has different kinds of links to go to. It has a lot of information about the military. You can also share this page with somebody. This page was maintained by John Pike. This page also has a site map.
 * [|USS Maine Explosion] This page has good information about how the USS Maine exploded. It has a link to go for the Spanish American War. You can sign up for a military history newsletter. It has links for different wars. It has history ads for different things about the USS Maine. At the bottom of the page you can explore more about military history.
 * [|Maine Memorial] This page is about the USS Maine's Cemetery. This is has wonderful pictures of things about the Maine. It has things about the sinking of the USS Maine and remembering it. Towards the bottom it tells you who posted this page. It has a lot of different things at the bottom of the page. Also towards the bottom of the page it tells you the war years.
 * [|USS Maine] This page has a little bit of information about the USS Maine. It has links for different kind of information about the Maine. At the top of the page it tells you where it is located. It has a picture to off the the right of the page of the ship. At the bottom of the page it tells you when the page was published. It has a resource to were you can get images of the USS Maine.
 * [|Main(Spanish American War)] This is a good page to get information from. It has different biography from different people. The page has pretty good pictures of the Maine. At the bottom of the page it has bibliography from all kinds of people about the Maine. It has information on how big the ship was. It also explains the advantages and disadvantages of the ship.

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Summary : The USS Maine was built at a U.S. Naval yard and was the first United States battleship to be built. It took about nine years to build, and three of those nine years had been waiting on the armor plating. The USS Maine was the largest vessel to be built at a U.S. Navy yard. The explosion of the USS Maine led to a outbreak of the Spanish American war in April 1898. There were some advantages and some disadvantages for the ship. A disadvantage was the type of vessel it had and bunkers that they used for additional armor and protection. When the USS Maine was finally launched and loaded with supplies it was found that the bow had a draft three feet greater than the stern. The Maine did not have a good coal capacity though it only held 895 tons of coal. The blowing up of the ship was a critical event on the road to the Spanish American War. The destruction of the Maine did not cause the U.S. to declare war on Spain. The sinking and deaths of the U.S. sailors rallied Americans more strongly behind armed interventions. The Congress voted funds for the removal of the wreck of the Maine form Havana Harbor. The U.S. engineers built a dam around the sunken battleship. The Cubans began a ten year rebellion against there Spanish overlords. Cubans were very angry over the rebellion and took action. After awhile the began a series of riots in the Havana area. This concerned the American citizens and business interests in the area so they sent a warship to the city. So McKinley passed his request to the Navy about the second class battleship. One night the Harbor was lit by a massive explosion that ripped through the forward section of the Maine with five tons of powder. Immediately assistance came to help by sending two boats circling the burning remains of the battleship to collect the survivors. A total of deaths were 252 with another eight dying ashore in the days that followed. Throughout the whole war the Spanish showed great compassion for the injured and respect for the dead American sailors. To investigate the loss of the Maine the navy swiftly formed a board of teams. Their investigation was not as successful as they thought it would be. But on March 28 the board announced that the ship had been sunk by a naval mine.

The coal mining back in the day

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 * Tyler Rohnke
 * Machine Gun
 * Doctor Richard Gatling
 * 1861
 * He believed that it would end the war by making it unthinkable to use due to the carnage of this weapon.
 * It came to exist by remaking it to use metallic cartridges and was bought and used by the United States Army.
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