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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Pat P, post: 68059, member: 201&quot;]The 1898 date and &quot;The Fleeing Squadron&quot; might have to do with the Spanish-American War. </p><p><br /></p><p>I don&#039;t know if this article is an historically accurate account, but found it interesting both in general and in the context of the photo...</p><p><br /></p><p><i>&quot;In 1898, President William McKinley, one of the last of the American presidents to manifest any of the early republican (anti-British imperialism) traditions of the Founding Fathers, was under enormous pressure from the Skull &amp; Bones-led American imperialists. Eventually, he went to war against Spain to &quot;free&quot; Cuba and seize the Philippines. This was the first time that the United States entered a war through devious manipulation and purely in order to expand its territories. It marked the beginning of a new epoch in American history which would forever alter the vision of the United States. It was the first evidence that the men of the Order were at the helm of the ship of state.</i></p><p><i><br /></i></p><p><i>President McKinley&#039;s capitulation to the WASP warriors would prove to be fatal to himself and, some would say, for his country, too. The Spanish-American War of 1898 catapulted the Skull &amp; Bones crowd into a position of dominance within the Republican Party. At the 1900 party presidential nominating convention, McKinley was forced to accept Teddy Roosevelt as his vice presidential running mate. The McKinley-Roosevelt slate was swept into office, in part as the result of the jingoist climate built up by the just-concluded Spanish-American War. Those circumstances were not all that different from the mood that prevails in America in the aftermath of the Gulf War of 1991.&quot;</i></p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://www.ctrl.org/essay1/GBSBNW.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.ctrl.org/essay1/GBSBNW.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.ctrl.org/essay1/GBSBNW.html</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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