Britain fights Spain in 1898

What if Britain, rather than the United States, fought Spain at the end of the nineteenth century?

The Royal Navy's overwhelming size would destroy Spain's fleet and let Britain seize Spanish possessions across the Caribbean and the wider world.

The fleet imbalance is too large for Spain to overcome. Unlike the United States, Britain possessed enough naval and imperial forces to continue operations across multiple colonial theaters after defeating the main Spanish squadrons. British planners would arrive with a list of possessions to capture in the Caribbean and elsewhere. The result would be a broad imperial dismantling rather than the more limited transfer produced by the historical war.