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CANNON FROM THE BATTLESHIP MAINE

The inscription reads:
This gun came off
the Battleship Maine
The Sinking of the Maine
resulted in the
Spanish American War
1898

U.S. battleship sunk (Feb. 15, 1898) in Havana harbor, killing 260, in an incident that helped precipitate the Spanish-American War. The cause of the explosion was never satisfactorily explained, and separate American and Spanish inquiries produced different results. But the American jingoistic press blamed the Spanish government, and Remember the Maine became the rallying cry of the war.

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