Theodore Roosevelt, Assistant Secretary of the Navy, orders Commodore George Dewey, commander of the Asiatic Squadron of the Navy of the United states, to prepare for an invasion of the Spanish enclave of the Philippines, if war breaks out against Spain.
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References:
Calvin D. Linton, ed., The Bicentennial Almanac: 200 Years of America, 1776-1976, (Nashville, Tennessee: Thomas Nelson, 1975), 250-51.
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