Summary of Gregg Jones's Honor in the Dust

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#1 The USS Maine was sent to Havana to show the Spanish that the United States was serious about their independence movement. However, on February 15, 1898, a tremendous explosion shattered windows across Havana, and a fireball boiled into the night sky. Only eighty-nine men made it off the ship.

#2 The explosion of the Maine raised tensions between America and Spain, and Congress prepared to spend $50 million on defense. Theodore Roosevelt, the most energetic assistant secretary of the Navy, was in charge of buying or leasing ships for the Navy.

#3 As spring arrived, preparations were underway to defend the East Coast from Spanish attack. The Navy had plans for an early-warning system along the Atlantic coast. If a Spanish ship was sighted 150 miles out, homing pigeons with messages attached to their legs were to be released.

#4 President McKinley was extremely reluctant to get involved in Cuba, but the pressure from his party to do something about the situation grew. He was horrified at the thought of another war, and did nothing to stop Roosevelt’s aggressive actions.

• Language: English
• Publisher: IRB Media
• Release date: May 24, 2022
• ISBN: 9798822525511

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Insights from Chapter 2

Insights from Chapter 3

Insights from Chapter 4

Insights from Chapter 1

#1

The USS Maine was sent to Havana to show the Spanish that the United States was serious about their independence movement. However, on February 15, 1898, a tremendous explosion shattered windows across Havana, and a fireball boiled into the night sky. Only eighty-nine men made it off the ship.

#2

The explosion of the Maine raised tensions between America and Spain, and Congress prepared to spend $50 million on defense. Theodore Roosevelt, the most energetic assistant secretary of the Navy, was in charge of buying or leasing ships for the Navy.

#3

As spring arrived, preparations were underway to defend the East Coast from Spanish attack. The Navy had plans for an early-warning system along the Atlantic coast. If a Spanish ship was sighted 150 miles out, homing pigeons with messages attached to their legs were to be released.

#4

President McKinley was extremely reluctant to get involved in Cuba, but the pressure from his party to do something about the situation grew. He was horrified at the thought of another war, and did nothing to stop Roosevelt’s aggressive actions.

#5

McKinley was pushed to action after the Cuban reconcentrados were shown to be in even worse shape than anticipated. He asked Congress for authority to use armed force to end the civil war in Cuba, and Spain responded by offering limited autonomy for the island.

#6

The war with Spain lasted just three days, but it was long enough for the country to gather strength and prove its fighting worth to the world.

#7

As the war with Spain drew near, the Brooklyn Navy Yard was thrown into complete chaos. The Marine battalion there had been created only the previous Saturday, and was sent off to fight a war in Cuba.

#8

The scene was hauntingly familiar for Huntington. He had commanded Marines in the far corners of the world, but when the Cuban crisis erupted in early 1898, he was assigned to lead the 1st Marine Battalion against Spain.

#9

On August 27, 1885, the battle ship Panther left the Brooklyn Navy Yard, carrying more than 600 enlisted men, 21 officers, and a surgeon. The Panther traveled up the East River to Manhattan, where it was met by boats and ferry passengers who wished the crew luck.

#10

Theodore Roosevelt was appointed assistant secretary of the Navy in late 1896, and within one year had made a huge impact on naval policy. He was thirty-eight years old when he took office on April 19, 1897.

#11

Theodore Roosevelt, the future president, was born in 1858. He was a sickly child, but he still managed to read constantly. He developed a mental picture of the man he wanted to become, strong, fearless, and indomitable.

#12

The 1880s brought a growing fear in some quarters that America could no longer cede