2-547-058 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

The Flying Squadron, Spanish-American War, 1898. The Flying Squadron was a US Navy force that operated in the Atlantic, the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean in the first part of the war. Featuring many of the navy's most modern warships, the squadron enforced the blockade of Santiago de Cuba. A print from Our Country in War and Relations with All Nations, by Murat Halstead, The United Subscription Book Publishers of America, 1898.