On September 14, 1897, after many years of fermentation, the French were the first to make practical moves, and on this day, French President François personally submitted to the parliament and passed the country's first boycott of American agricultural and industrial products, the "Franco-American Commodity Act".

Seeing that France moved, Britain, Portugal, Germany, Italy and other countries also followed, and in less than half a month, all European countries have introduced special tariff bills for American goods, these measures can effectively protect the development of their own industry and agriculture while punishing Americans, and for a time the prices of industrial and agricultural products exported by the United States have risen sharply in European countries.

In early October, Chile, France, and Portugal also agreed to sell their own naval vessels to Spain, following the sale of Seris to Spain. On 7 October, an ocean-going supply convoy contracted by British and German merchants to Spain broke through the blockade of the American fleet for the first time and sailed into the port of Santiago de Cuba......

At this time, the American political axe, which was not supposed to be such a thing, became anxious.

On October 11, 1897, when the Russian Baltic Ocean Fleet sailed into the ports of the Far Northeast Sea in embarrassment after more than three months of arduous journey, the Americans finally reluctantly agreed to the mediation intention proposed by the British political axe.

But under the competition of practical interests, things obviously will not go so smoothly.

On October 13, at the negotiating table in London, England, the Americans jumped up like cats whose tails had been stepped on in an instant in the face of the demands of the Spanish royal family for the return of Puerto Rico, the withdrawal of the fleet, and the compensation of 200 million pesos for Spain. As of October 16, negotiations between the United States and Spain reached a stalemate again, and the flames of war in the Americas were once again ignited.

Only this time, due to the intervention of Britain, Germany and other countries, the cage-style blockade adopted by the US Navy has actually lost its effect. On 22 October, when the U.S. Army, with its superiority of 100,000 troops, broke the calm on the west coast of the United States.

The whole fleet consisted of one 7,000-ton Luzon-class battleship and four 5,000-ton Taiwan-class armored cruisers.

The U.S. Navy has a few old warships anchored on the west coast, and they have never flinched in the face of a strong enemy, and they are still fighting tenaciously and unyieldingly, and some sailors still hold on to their gun positions until the moment before their ships sink, and the quality of American sailors is awe-inspiring.

However, it is clear that the noble will to fight cannot make up for the difference in strength between the two sides, and before the opening of the Panama Canal, any idea of the Americans wanting to support the West Coast is unrealistic. Looking at the strength of the new Spanish fleet, you must know that a Luzon-class battleship in its fleet alone has six 305 mm large-caliber new naval guns, with a giant blasting grenade weighing nearly half a ton and an astonishing muzzle velocity of 670 m/s, its power is second to none in the world, and the weak protection of the American iron-ribbed wood-hulled steam battleship is as useless as paper paste in front of it. In the face of the baptism of naval artillery salvo of the new Spanish fleet, several old American steam warships were not opponents at all, and they were finally wiped out by the other side in the waters of San Diego Harbor.

There was no time to lament the strength of the battleship Seris, and after not being tied up by the enemy navy, the Spanish fleet was even more free.

In the early morning of the 22nd, the Spanish fleet sailing from the Wake Island colony brazenly shelled the western port city of Los Angeles, and in the following days, the fleet successively shelled San Francisco, Portland, Seattle, and other cities along the coastline, and sank and captured hundreds of American merchant ships.

Just when US President McKinley was overwhelmed by the continuous fighting on the West Coast, the Spanish fleet seemed to feel that it was not enough to toss, and gave him a big surprise again at the end of the month.

After a short break in the Mexican port of Guadalupe, the Spanish fleet again waved its nerve and forced its way into the Hawaiian island of Oahu on October 31, and the Spanish fleet occupied the entire Hawaiian Islands one by one under the command of the ship's chief gunner.

When the Hawaiian artillery had just fired, US President McKinley fell ill at the White House, and in Cuba, the US soldiers who were still celebrating the capture of northern Cuba were also emasculated one by one.

Of course, some were unlucky and some were excited, and Queen Isabella, the regent of the Spanish royal family, even personally sent a congratulatory telegram to all the Spanish naval officers and sailors on the Far Eastern front, giving them a compliment. The rest of the countries of Asia and Europe, including Britain, France, and Germany, were also surprised by this battle, and as soon as Spain began to lose in Cuba, the successive events seemed to have become favorable to them, and there was no doubt that what happened in the Hawaiian Islands in the Pacific Ocean was undoubtedly a shot in the arm for the Spanish political axe.

The situation was beyond everyone's expectations, and the Americans, who were shouted and killed by various countries, did not get the slightest benefit, but the Spaniards, who were originally crying to other countries on the sidelines, inadvertently pried away a large part of the American colonies in the Pacific.

Chen Zeyu on the other side of the Pacific Ocean also applauded the results of the Spaniards!

You must know that in the original history, in the Spanish-American War, the Americans quickly knocked down the Spanish political axe, and the United States participated in the war no more than 100,000 troops in that time and space, and the casualties were only more than 4,000. With the exception of non-combat attrition due to climate and disease, very few Americans actually died in the war, and it can be said that the Americans won a major victory at a very small cost. While turning the Caribbean Sea into its own inland lake, the United States has also acquired important colonies in the Pacific, such as Guam and the Philippines, and has become one of the great powers that can compete with European countries.

In the last time and space, the victory of the Spanish-American War will greatly boost the confidence of the United States in participating in international affairs and expanding abroad, and it will also take a more active part in the struggle for hegemony in Latin America and the Far East Pacific in the coming decades.

But now, everything is shattered! By the end of October 1897, the U.S. Army had lost more than 57,000 troops, of which 17,341 were confirmed dead, 20,759 wounded, and more than 19,000 were missing (dead and captured). The navy also suffered heavy losses, with three capital ships heavily damaged, six capital ships lightly damaged, and fourteen unprotected cruisers sunk, resulting in a total of 7,944 casualties among the officers and men on board, including 4,355 killed. While the American political axe has made itself anxious, it has also inadvertently created a large number of domestic widows and orphans, and in some areas, especially in Florida, the neighborhoods and even families wear filial piety, and the owners of local coffin shops have begun to tremble while earning enough dollars. And in exchange for these tragic prices, Puerto Rico was only a worthless place, and on the contrary, it even hitched a ride on the Hawaiian Islands, and suddenly the entire American people felt that they had been fooled, and the crowds of people marching and rioting in various states were endless!

With the growing anger at home, the US political axe had no choice but to restart the negotiating agenda in London.

On November 3, negotiators from both sides once again wrestled at the negotiating table in London over the dispute between the United States and Spain, but unlike the previous one, this time the issue of Hawaii was added to the shame of the Americans.

By mid-November, with the exception of the Russians, who were still farming in the Far East, all European countries, including Britain, had publicly expressed their support for Spain.

Faced with the international situation in which they were unprecedentedly isolated, the Americans had no choice but to reluctantly express their abandonment of discussing the future of Cuba in the context of an international conference, that is, to abandon the so-called demand for Cuban reading power, and to announce the immediate withdrawal of their troops from northern Cuba. But on the issue of war reparations and Puerto Rico in the southeastern Caribbean, the American negotiators insisted on making no more concessions and demanded that Spain return its Hawaiian colony.

The angry Spanish representative Rajoy announced on the spot that if the American political axe refused to make reparations for the Spanish-American War, then he would auction off the Hawaiian Islands in public to raise his country's losses.

The frightened Americans had to return to the negotiating table again, and on 7 December, just as representatives of the two sides were haggling over the Hawaiian issue in London, the unexpected happened again.

While the two sides were negotiating, the American people had already learned of the results of each other's negotiations, and they were in an uproar when they saw the US soldiers who had withdrawn from Cuba to their country!

After months of fear, thousands of casualties among the soldiers of the Navy and Army finally came to such a result. Countless American families who lost their sons and husbands were all furious, and in an instant, the front of the White House was once again filled with a crowd of demonstrators. On December 19, in the midst of the turmoil in Congress, US President McKinley stepped down in disgrace, and even such angry public sentiment was not appeased, and finally the entire top level of the US central government had to resign.

In the midst of the chaos, the American negotiators, who were still in London waiting for instructions from the rear, became at a loss. At this time, the Spaniards, who had been waiting impatiently, finally announced the sale of the Hawaiian Islands to the outside world, and the political axes of various countries that received the news immediately sent personnel to London to negotiate with them.

In the end, amid the indignant protests of the American negotiators, the wealthy Seris and the German political axe won the first place, and after mutual negotiation, they jointly paid 200 million pesos to obtain the main islands of the colonial archipelago, such as Kauai, Oahu and Maui, and Hawaii Island.

The French, who did not reap the slightest benefit, began to angrily declare the three-party purchase agreement null and void, and the Hawaiian Islands were originally colonies belonging to the French political axe. But at this time it was clear that neither Seris, nor the Germans, nor the Spaniards, who had actually benefited from them, would pay any attention to them.

In this way, in the bitter helplessness of the US deputies, on 24 December, the United States and Spain hastily signed the "US-West London Peace Treaty" in London, England.

After the respective issues of Hawaii and Puerto Rico were deleted, the treaty provided for the immediate withdrawal of Spanish and American troops from each other's territories. After the U.S. Navy and Army completely withdrew from the Caribbean except Puerto Rico, the Spanish fleet also began to gradually withdraw from the West Coast of the United States and stopped harassing American merchant ships at sea......

Amid the noise and turmoil, 1897 came to an end.

In the face of the unprecedented isolation of European countries, the Americans are in an extremely awkward position on the Caribbean issue. Unlike the Spanish-American War, which was a smooth event in its original history, the United States, as a new power, unexpectedly failed in its first step in seeking a global market and colonies abroad, and fell sharply.

On the contrary, as the first traditional European power they challenged, Spain was very fortunate to be the victor of the war in the game of all parties in the early misfortune, and finally maintained their dignity as an old power.

On December 31, with the death of a cavalry captain named Theodore Roosevelt in the wounded barracks of Finston, Florida, history once again went a corner......

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