The Battle of Manila Bay by Anthony Saunders (P) SHN560 A spectating French Officer General

A spectating French Officer General Pierre Bosquet proclaimed - It is magnificent but it is not war

Fw190 by Jason Askew

Corporal Lyons was leaning over the barricade to aim when he was hit in the neck by a bullet which paralysed him

Tiberius Claudius Drusus Nero) a great supporter of the games

The lead aircraft is EB-J

The Battle of Manila Bay by Anthony Saunders (P) SHN560 A spectating French Officer GeneralDHM1347P. The Battle of Manila Bay by Anthony Saunders. A splendid little war was how John Hay, ambassador to Britain, described the Spanish American war of 1898. Though the war was small in scope it was large in consequences; it promoted the regeneration of the American Navy and the emergence of the United States as a major world power. Fought primarily at sea, the war created an American naval legend in its opening encounter between the pacific