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Theodore Roosevelt called it: "A splendid littlewar".

It is true that Roosevelt used that term and the quote is often credited to him in err. John Milton Hay, the US Ambassador to the United Kingdom and later the US Secretary of State penned it in a letter to Roosevelt and deserves the credit for that bit of prose.

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Roosevelt called it the "splendid little war"

My teacher took this as it's "official" nickname

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