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1898
 
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Russian forces seize the strategically important Chinese harbour known in the west as Port Arthur      
1898
 
   
The Philippines declare independence from the colonial power, Spain, with whom they are at war      
1898
 
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Theodore Roosevelt fights against the Spanish in Cuba with a volunteer regiment of cavalry, the Rough Riders    See in Google maps   
1898
 
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Winston Churchill gallops into battle with the Twenty-First Lancers at Omdurman        
1898
 
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In the Treaty of Paris, ending the Spanish-American War, Spain cedes Puerto Rico and Cuba to the USA    See in Google maps   
1898
 
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The agreement ending the Spanish-American War includes Spain selling the Philippines to the USA for a payment of $20 million       
1898
 
    
H.G. Wells publishes his science-fiction novel The War of the Worlds, in which Martians arrive in a rocket to invade earth       
1899
 
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The War of a Thousand Days begins in Colombia, causing eventually 100,000 deaths      
1899
 
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The Boer War breaks out, ostensibly over the rights of British settlers in the Transvaal     
1899
 
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Within a single 'Black Week' the British forces in South Africa suffer three defeats, at Stromberg, Magersfontein and Colenso