Why did the first battles of the Spanish-American war take place where
they did?

The immediate cause of the Spanish-American War was Cuba's struggle for independence from Spain. The mysterious destruction of the U.S. battleship Maine in Havana's harbour on February 15, 1898, led to a declaration of war against Spain two months later

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