Just months later, however, the United States invaded the island during the 1898 Spanish-American War ... after Jenniffer González-Colón, who held the position since 2017, won Puerto Rico ...

On Feb. 6, 1899, Congress approved the Treaty of Paris, which also ceded the Philippines, Puerto Rico and Guam to the U.S.

"The freedom of Puerto Rico is pending, and we will achieve it with Brazilian troops," the Venezuelan president said.

After Hurricane Maria hit the island ... The U.S. acquired Puerto Rico as a spoil of the Spanish-American War of 1898. “Do ...

With its victory and subsequent annexation of the Philippines, Hawaii, Guam, and Puerto Rico, the United States ... request for a declaration of war on April 25, 1898; yet the Spanish-American ...

Since Puerto Rico became a U.S. territory in 1898 after the Spanish-American War, its people have played a role in the U.S. armed forces, beginning with the formation of the Battalion of Porto ...

Puerto Rican voters have overwhelmingly chosen to keep their U.S. citizenship, granted in 1917 by an act of Congress, following the U.S. takeover of the island from Spain in the 1898 Spanish-American ...