America's "splendid little war ... the Philippines, Hawaii, Guam, and Puerto Rico, the United States stood poised to enter the 20th century as an imperial power. Troops on the march, Spanish ...
In the fall of 1896, Filipino nationalists revolted against the Spanish ... war with Spain and an unanticipated war with the United States. Historians suggest that the roots of the Philippine ...
Furthermore, the Filipinos had no desire to trade Spanish rule for American rule and violently resisted occupation by U.S. forces. The notably dirty Philippine-American War that followed from 1899 ...
One of the most obscured events in Philippine ... communications at that time, the Spanish military and civilian leadership ...