The U.S. declared war against Spain on April 25 of this year
[DOC] [TLE] The Spanish-American War, 1898 - Milestones in the History of U.S. ... [PAR] The Spanish-American War of 1898 ended Spain's colonial empire in the 
Western Hemisphere ... United States and Spain was preceded by three years of 
fighting by Cuban revolutionaries to gain ... That same day, Spain declared war 
on the United States, and the U.S. Congress voted to go to war against Spain on 
April 25.