Spanish Order of Battle, 1898
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CUBA
Spanish Forces at Santiago de Cuba
Cuba Regiment (12 companies)
Asia Regiment (8 companies)
San Fernando Regiment (6 companies)
Porto Rico Regiment (6 companies)
Talavera Regiment (6 companies)
Constitution Regiment (6 companies)
Volunteer Companies (16 companies)
1st Volunteer Battalion
2nd Volunteer Battalion
Firemen Battalion
Company of Veterans
Engineers and sappers (3 companies)
Siege artillery (1 company)
Mountain artillery (1 section)
Guardia Civil (1 squadron)
Kings Regiment (2 squadrons)
Signal Corps (1 section)
Company of Guides
Guerillas (8 companies)
Sailors, Spanish Navy
Manzanillo garrision ( troops who were sent to Santiago de Cuba in June, 1898)
Isabel La Catolica (1st and 2nd battalion)
Andalusia (1st battalion)
Alcantara Peninsular Regiment #3
Puerto Rico Chasseurs (1st battalion)
Mounted Guerillas (3 companies)
5th Mountain Artillery (2nd section, 1st battery)
8th Sapper Regiment, 8th Company (detachment)
10th Company, Transportation Corps
PUERTO RICO
Alfonso XIII Regiment (1 battalion)
Pricipado de Asturies (1 battalion)
Patria (1 battalion)
Puerto Rican Volunteer Light Battalion #3
Puerto Rican Volunteer Light Battalion #4
Puerto Rican Volunteet Light Battalion #6
12th Garrison Artillery battalion
5th Tercio Guardia Civil
Total Spanish forces on Island, with local volunteer units, was officially 7,826 men.
PHILIPPINES
Thanks to John O'Keefe.
Military District of Luzon
1st Bn, Regiment of Magellan, No. 70
2nd Bn, Regiment of Magellan, No. 70
1st Bn, Regiment of Visayas, No. 72
1st Bn, Regiment of Jolo, No. 73
2nd Bn, Regiment of Jolo, No. 73
1st Expeditionary Rifle Battalion
2nd Expeditionary Rifle Battalion
3rd Expeditionary Rifle Battalion
4th Expeditionary Rifle Battalion
5th Expeditionary Rifle Battalion
6th Expeditionary Rifle Battalion
7th Expeditionary Rifle Battalion
8th Expeditionary Rifle Battalion
9th Expeditionary Rifle Battalion
10th Expeditionary Rifle Battalion
11th Expeditionary Rifle Battalion
12th Expeditionary Rifle Battalion
13th Expeditionary Rifle Battalion
14th Expeditionary Rifle Battalion
15th Expeditionary Rifle Battalion
