Siege of San Juan

GPTKB entity

Properties (51)
Predicate Object
gptkbp:instanceOf military siege
gptkbp:aftermath Treaty of Paris 1898
Puerto_Rico_becomes_a_U.S._territory
gptkbp:casualties significant losses on both sides
gptkbp:combatants gptkb:Spain
gptkb:United_States
gptkbp:commander gptkb:General_John_C._Bates
gptkb:General_John_R._Brooke
gptkb:General_Henry_W._Lawton
gptkb:Colonel_Leonard_Wood
gptkb:Admiral_William_T._Sampson
gptkb:General_John_J._Pershing
gptkb:General_James_H._Wilson
gptkb:General_William_R._Shafter
gptkb:Brigadier_General_Theodore_Roosevelt
gptkb:General_Charles_A._Wood
gptkb:General_Joseph_Wheeler
gptkb:General_Samuel_S._Sumner
gptkb:General_William_H._McKinley
gptkb:General_John_M._Lee
gptkb:General_William_H._H._McKinley
gptkb:General_William_H._Wright
gptkb:General_William_H._Taft
General_William_H._McKibbin
General_William_H._Sewell
gptkbp:date July 25, 1898
gptkbp:duration approximately 3 weeks
gptkbp:historicalContext U.S._expansionism
Spanish_colonialism
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label Siege of San Juan
gptkbp:impact influenced U.S.-Latin American relations
marked_the_decline_of_Spanish_Empire
gptkbp:is_a_source_of eyewitness accounts
newspaper articles
military reports
gptkbp:legacy studied in military history
commemorated_in_Puerto_Rican_history
gptkbp:location gptkb:San_Juan,_Puerto_Rico
gptkbp:notableFigures gptkb:General_Nelson_A._Miles
gptkb:General_José_María_García
gptkbp:outcome occupation_of_Puerto_Rico_by_the_United_States
gptkbp:partOf Spanish-American War
gptkbp:relatedEvent gptkb:Battle_of_San_Juan_Hill
Battle of El Caney
landing at Guánica
gptkbp:result American_victory
gptkbp:significance led_to_the_end_of_Spanish_colonial_rule_in_Puerto_Rico
gptkbp:tactics siege warfare
blockade
artillery bombardment
infantry assaults