American blockade formation in Cuban waters Schley's Brooklyn, followed by battleships Texas, Oregon, Iowa, and Indiana
Battle of Santiago de Cuba. The Battle of Santiago de Cuba, fought between Spain and the United States on July 3, 1898, was the largest naval engagement of the Spanish-American War and resulted in the destruction of the Spanish Caribbean Squadron (also known as the Flota de Ultramar). With the exception of Commodore George Dewey's squadron in the Pacific, nearly every warship in the Navy was near or on its way to Cuba. Only a handful of reactivated American Civil War-vintage monitors and overworked cutters of the United States Revenue Cutter Service remained to defend the coastline. The primary elements of the force in Cuban waters were divided between two men: Rear Admiral William T. Sampson and his Atlantic Squadron, and Commodore Winfield Scott Schley and his so-called "Flying Squadron". Sampson's orders were contradictory and somewhat confusing; Schley often took unnecessary risks, something which greatly offended the conservative Sampson. On the morning of May 29, 1898, Cervera's squadron was sighted inside the safety of Santiago Bay, Cuba, by elements of the Flying Squadron. On May 31, 1898, Schley was joined by Sampson, who took command of the situation and instructed a general blockade.
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