How Did We End Up With Puerto Rico?
Today in History – June 10 On June 10, 1898, U.S. Marines landed at Guantánamo Bay. For the next month, American troops fought a land war in Cuba that resulted in the end of Spanish colonial rule in the Western Hemisphere. In the Treaty of Paris of 1898, the United States gained sovereignty over Guam, Puerto Rico, and the…
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