Our Own Recent Times) During this, the last of our great epochs in American history, occurred the war with Spain. At its conclusion, not an acre of land in America was owned by the people for whom the Continent was discovered and by whom it was first explored and settled. This was the last of our five wars with foreign states. The first, the war with France, secured to North America Anglo-Sax!on civilization instead of Latin; the Revolution created a new Federal republic; the war of 1812 demonstrated that we were a naval power able to cope with Europe; the war with Mexico secured Pfor the national domain a territory larger than I was acquired in the Louisiana Purchase; the war with Spain raised the JElepublic to a new and high level as a world power. Within this epoch of thirty-five years marvelous progress was made.