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They looked for different routes because when they took the normal way, they would get robbed by pirates or sometimes they didn't reach their destination.
At the conclusion of the Spanish American War, the United States gained Cuba as its Protectorate, which eventually led to the Cuban War of Independence and the subsequent rise of the Philippine–American War
