Second Eastern Campaign

Second Eastern Campaign
Part of Cuban War of Independence
The Rough Riders charging at the Battle of San Juan Hill
Date August 12, 1898 Location Oriente Province, Cuba, Spain Result Cuban Victory End of the War Cuban independence
Belligerents
Cuban rebels	Spain
Commanders and leaders
Calixto García Jesús Rabí José M. Capote Mario García Carlos García	Valeriano Weyler Ramón Blanco
Strength
35,000 infantry	7,800 infantry
Casualties and losses
624 killed	2,365 killed

The Second Eastern Campaign was a military campaign that took place between August 1 to 12, 1898, in the Oriente Province of Cuba during the Cuban War of Independence. It was the shortest military campaign of the entire war and it was the one that marked the end of Spanish reign in Cuba and the Spanish Empire in Latin America.