Talk:List of battles of the Spanish–American War

Untitled (2003)

Does anyone have further information on the cited reference:

Bagosy, A., The Dirty Little War

which was added by user 68.100.105.250 ? I cannot find anything with a Google search or a search of library holdings. I would like to 1) confirm author's name and title of book, 2) find author's first name, 3) find place and year of publication. --Jose Ramos 18:20, 22 September 2003 (UTC)

A Google search turned up an Alex Bagosy at matthias_corvinus(at)msn.com who may be a likely candidate. - Hephaestos 18:56, 22 September 2003 (UTC)

Untitled (2004)

I've taken the liberty of changing "First Battle of Cardenas", to "Battle of Cardenas", on which I've submitted a modest article. If there do turn-out to be multiple article-worthy battles of the name, then the edit can be reversed, but this seems doubtful. - Albrecht —Preceding undated comment added 19:37, 26 November 2004 (UTC)

Several small revisions:

• Removed victory keys: a bloodless American failure to properly scuttle their own ship does not constitute a Spanish military victory. Conversely, unopposed landings and the "capture" of strategically unimportant islands are not American victories. I think these are better off without these labels.
• Changed Cienfuogos to "Inconclusive" - American marines got themselves killed, and it's unclear that cutting the cables hindered the Spanish war effort in any way. Perhaps someone can correct me on this.
• Skirmish at Las Guasimas: I removed (S). The action against the Cuban rebels is briefly mentioned in my Las Guasimas article. Perhaps we could remove it entirely?
• Battle of Las Guasimas: I don't think it appropriate to label this an "ambush". Though many Spanish soldiers certainly orchestrated small ambushes, the American army was fully aware of the main Spanish positions and had been sent to drive them out.
• Battle of Fajardo: I've left this alone for the moment, but cursory research does not indicate a U.S. defeat.

- Albrecht —Preceding undated comment added 01:27, 27 November 2004 (UTC)

Infobox

It is not clear if the infobox in this list applies to the Spanish–American War overall, or just the 30 battles covered by this list, but either way I removed it.

1. If the infobox applies to the War overall, then it is redundant to the infobox in the main article, Spanish–American War. It is unnecessary and unhelpful to maintain two separate infoboxes for the same event, and this can and does increase the likelihood of contradictions and errors (as in this case, where the two infoboxes provided different figures).
2. If the inofbox applies only to the 30 battles, it would constitute original synthesis.

I have started a discussion at Talk:Spanish–American War#Infobox regarding potentially integrating elements of the two infoboxes. -- Black Falcon ^(talk) 19:14, 26 November 2017 (UTC)