1895-1899: The Spanish-American War, A Sordid Little War

1895: COLOMBIA. U.S. troops invade the Colombian state of Panama to “protect American interests”.1895: UNITED STATES. Josiah Strong, minister of the Christian religion, publishes Our Country: Its Possible Future and Its Present Crisis, in which he contends that the United States, as the home of the “superior” Anglo-Saxon race, has an obligation to spread political "liberty", "Christianity" and "