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The Night the USS Maine Exploded—and How It Changed the American Empire

By Cliff Potts, CSO, and Editor-in-Chief of WPS News On the evening of February 15, 1898, a thunderclap tore through Havana Harbor. Within minutes, the United States Navy’s pride lay shattered, 266 sailors were dead, and a regional crisis accelerated into a global turning point. The ship was the USS Maine, and her destruction pushed the United States into the Spanish–American War—a short war…

The Night the USS Maine Exploded—and How It Changed the American Empire

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More on the Damage Estimate Additional thoughts regarding the damage to Admiral Kuznetsov . . . . The gulf between OSK chief Rakhmanov’s 300 million rubles and 95 billion rubles from…