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The U.S. took possession of Puerto Rico in 1898 as part of its spoils from the Spanish-American War.
Trophies of war--from helmets, bayonets, and other innocuous spoils to the grisly byproducts of dismemberment--have a long, if not proud, history.
(It was Van Buren's ally William L. Marcy who famously said, "To the victors belong the spoils," making the "spoils system" of rewarding supporters a fixture of party politics.)
Otherwise, to be called "Jones" spoils the meal.
The fighting brought none of the usual spoils of war that provincial warlords and samurai had come to expect as payment.