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U.S. Navy seizes Guam without resistance

On June 20, 1898, the USS Charleston arrived at Guam and the American landing party took formal possession of the island from a small Spanish garrison with no fighting.

U.S. Navy seizes Guam without resistance

The bloodless seizure extended U.S. territorial presence into the western Pacific during the Spanish–American War and later provided a strategic coaling and naval base for American Pacific operations.

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