3-086-189 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

The Spanish-American War: the Common Crier, Colonel Burnaby, reading proclamation of Britain's Neutrality..., 1898. '...outside the Royal Exchange: "God Save the Queen!"...The long-expected has come at last, and war has been declared. On April 20 the United States Government at Washington performed the decisive act of committing itself to active hostilities'. Announcement in London. From "Illustrated London News", 1898.