Remember the Maine! became the battle cry for the U.S. after the battleship Maine mysteriously blew up off the coast of Spanish-controlled Cuba. Fought from April to August 1898, the Spanish-American War led to Cuba being liberated from Spanish rule and the United States gaining control of Puerto Rico, Guam and the Philippines. U-X-L(R) s Spanish-American War covers the underlying causes of the war, the battles and the resolution of the conflict...