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Some Filipino officers had surrendered to the American forces. Aguinaldo now had personal command of the Army of Liberation. The Philippine Revolution was in a state of flux and uncertainty.
More than 200,000 Filipinos fought the Japanese alongside American soldiers during World War II. At the time, President Franklin D. Roosevelt promised Filipino troops they would be rewarded for ...
Filipino Americans have been fighting for social justice alongside other communities, for centuries, and you probably didn't know it. For Fil-Am History Month, here are their stories.
Congress approved President McKinley's request for a declaration of war on April 25, 1898; yet the Spanish-American War was the culmination of decades of pressure toward U.S. expansionism.
It wasn’t until my late 20s that I learned about Filipino American legacies — how our ancestors landed in what is now Morro Bay on Oct. 18, 1587, how Filipino Americans fought in World War II ...
The Philippine-American War took place 1898-1902, following the Spanish-American War, when the United States annexed the Philippines, only granting full independence to the country in 1946.
Then, in 1903, after the Philippine-American War, the U.S. government began giving these students scholarships to attend American colleges. The goal: to bring American customs back to the Philippines.