 Then we found ourselves overlooking our major objective, Santiago, and the next day the siege of the city began. On July 3rd, the Spanish fleet was destroyed by our naval fleet, and on July 17th, the Spanish surrendered the city and Cuba to us. And on 3 July 1968, during the Vietnam War, our command in Saigon released figures showing that more Americans were killed during the first six months of 1968 than in all of 1967.