CSPAN2 Book TV January 19, 2014
The maine went down in savannah harbor and we went to war in april of 1898 with spain and then we won puerto rico, the philippines had control over cuba and so on. We salvage some of the items from the maine the next year and then in 1910 started to bring up the maine and in 1912 after taking off all the items the sailors that were still towed it out get in a very solemn ceremony. A number of the items came to the smithsonian. One of them where the Steering Wheel of the maine and George Washingtons uniform was regarded at the time in the early 1900s as this great symbol of the american nation ...
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