It was on April 25, 1898, When the United States did declare war on Spain. This was followed by the sinking of the battleship Maine in the Havana Harbor on February 15, 1898. The war ended with the signing of the Treaty of Paris on December 10, 1898. It was due to this war, as a result of which Spain lost its control over the remains of its empire including Cuba, Peurto Rico, the Philippines Island, Guam as well as several other small islands. In the period of war, the United States interest in purchasing Cuba started long before 1898 and following the ten consecutive years, American’s sugar interest also did bring up large tracts of land of land in Cuba. Several modifications in the United States sugar Tariff favoring home grown beet sugar that stimulated the rekindling process of the revolutionary fervor in 1895 ("Introduction - The World of 1898: