This 1899 illustration shows: “The Capture of San Juan.” Painting illustrating the capture of San Juan Hill, July 2, 1898, during the Spanish -American War. The Americans took the blockhouse and San Juan Hill from the Spanish, a key event in ending the war and the surrender of the Spanish. The Battle of San Juan Hill, also known as the Battle for the San Juan Heights, was a major battle of the Spanish–American War fought between an American force under the command of William Rufus Shafter and Joseph Wheeler against a Spanish force led by Arsenio Linares y Pombo.

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