Spanish -- American War Part of the Philippine Revolution and the Cuban War of Independence (clockwise from top left) Signal Corps extending telegraph lines from trenches USS Iowa Filipino soldiers wearing Spanish pith helmets outside Manila The defeated side signing the Treaty of Paris Roosevelt and his Rough Riders at the captured San Juan Hill Replacing of the Spanish flag at Fort Malate Date April 21, 1898 -- August 13, 1898 (3 months, 3 weeks and 2 days) Location Cuba and Puerto Rico (Caribbean Sea) Philippines and Guam (Asia - Pacific) Result American victory Treaty of Paris of 1898 Territorial changes Spain relinquishes sovereignty over Cuba, cedes Puerto Rico, Guam and the Philippine Islands to the United States for $20 million Belligerents United States Cuban revolutionaries Filipino revolutionaries Spain Cuba Spanish East Indies Puerto Rico Commanders and leaders William McKinley Nelson A. Miles Theodore Roosevelt William R. Shafter George Dewey William Sampson Wesley Merritt Joseph Wheeler Charles D. Sigsbee Máximo Gómez Demetrio Castillo Duany Emilio Aguinaldo Apolinario Mabini Baldomero Aguinaldo Antonio Luna Maria Christina Práxedes Mateo Sagasta Patricio Montojo Pascual Cervera Arsenio Linares Manuel De la Cámara y Livermore Manuel Macías Ramón Blanco Antero Rubín Valeriano Weyler Basilio Augustín Fermín Jáudenes José Toral y Velázquez Diego de los Ríos Strength 72,339 troops (total) 53,000 rebels 40,000 rebels 206,000 troops (Caribbean) Unknown (Philippines) Casualties and losses American: 281 killed and 1,577 wounded (Army) 16 killed and 68 wounded (Navy) 2,061 dead from disease 11 prisoners 1 cargo ship sunk 1 cruiser damaged Spanish: 200 killed and 400 wounded (Army) 500 -- 600 killed and 300 -- 400 wounded (Navy) 15,000 dead from disease 40,000 + prisoners 6 small ships sunk 11 cruisers sunk 2 destroyers sunk The higher naval losses may be attributed to the disastrous naval defeats inflicted on the Spanish at Manila Bay and Santiago de Cuba.
where was most of the spanish american war fought
Cuba and Puerto Rico (Caribbean Sea) Philippines and Guam (Asia - Pacific)