Remember the Maine

Cultural  

1. A slogan of the Spanish-American War. The United States battleship Maine mysteriously exploded and sank in the harbor of Havana, Cuba, in 1898. Stirred up by the yellow press (see yellow journalism), the American public blamed the sinking on Spain, which then owned Cuba. President William McKinley, who had opposed war, yielded to public pressure and asked Congress to declare war.

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Example Sentences

Will the cry "Remember the Maine" quiet down?

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Never more popular than today, George V went home to a London in which the House of Commons was ringing with ironic cries of "Remember the Maine!"

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Military Historian Walter Millis riffles through old pictures and eyewitness drawings in an effort to help a new generation understand what Grandpa meant when he shouted: "Remember the Maine and to Hell with Spain."

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Bronston's status is so high in Madrid at the moment that he could probably make a picture there called Remember the Maine.

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Even the signal of the "Olympia," "Remember the Maine," and the answering signal of the "Brooklyn," "The Maine is avenged and Cuba is free," can be seen flying from their yards.

From Thirteen Chapters of American History represented by the Edward Moran series of Thirteen Historical Marine Paintings by Sutro, Theodore