2-547-064 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Battle of Manila Bay, Philippines, Spanish-American War, 1898. The battle, the first major engagement of the war, resulted in the destruction of the Spanish Pacific Squadron by the US Navy's Asiatic Squadron commanded by Admiral George Dewey. A print from Our Country in War and Relations with All Nations, by Murat Halstead, The United Subscription Book Publishers of America, 1898.