Definition of Spanish war

1. Noun. A war between the United States and Spain in 1898.

Exact synonyms: Spanish-american War
Generic synonyms: War, Warfare
Terms within: Manila Bay, Santiago, Santiago De Cuba

Lexicographical Neighbors of Spanish War

Spanish
Spanish-American War
Spanish-speaking
Spanish American
Spanish Arabic
Spanish Armada
Spanish Civil War
Spanish Guinea
Spanish Inquisition
Spanish Main
Spanish Netherlands
Spanish Sahara
Spanish Sign Language
Spanish Town
Spanish Virgin Islands
Spanish War
Spanish Water Dog
Spanish Water Dogs
Spanish bayonet
Spanish broom
Spanish burgoo
Spanish capital
Spanish cedar
Spanish cedar tree
Spanish chestnut
Spanish chestnuts
Spanish dagger
Spanish donkey
Spanish donkeys
Spanish elm

Literary usage of Spanish war

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Spanish-American War by Russell Alexander Alger (1901)
"Well, in the days which tried the souls of the sensational journals in the Spanish War, just back of where you bivouacked the commissary department had a ..."

2. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1920)
"spanish war VETERANS, a society organized by men who took part in the ... Although the number of killed and wounded in the spanish war was not large, ..."

3. History of Friedrich II. of Prussia, Called Frederick the Great: Called by Thomas Carlyle (1873)
"The spanish war being of moment to us here, we will let our Constitutional Historian explain, in his own dialect, How it was so vital to England ; and shall ..."

4. History of Friedrich II, of Prussia: Called Frederick the Great by Thomas Carlyle (1900)
"... Carthagena proving the evanescent point of that sad business), Succinct History of the spanish war, which began in 1739 ; and ended— When did it end ? ..."

5. The Works of Thomas Carlyle: (complete). by Thomas Carlyle (1897)
"The Pitt Catastrophe: hmv the Peace-Negotiation went of by Explosion ; how Pitt withdrew (3d October, 1761), and there came a spanish war nevertheless. ..."

6. From Harrison to Harding: A Personal Narrative, Covering a Third of a by Arthur Wallace Dunn (1922)
"""TWO very important results growing out of the spanish war were the annexation of Hawaii and the construction of the Panama canal. ..."

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