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Fewer than 400 American soldiers were killed in combat ... such as typhoid and dysentery. But by July 1899, yellow fever returned to Cuba, though to a lesser degree than the previous year.
Spain responded to the Cuban insurgency by sending 100,000 soldiers to Cuba in 1895. After the United States government was drawn into the conflict in 1898, the end of Spanish rule became a reality.