Still, the Spanish were quickly subdued ... "newspaper headlines in the United States proclaimed that in the Philippines, 'Tis Dewey on the Sea, and MacArthur on the Land.'" ...

In the fall of 1896, Filipino nationalists revolted against the Spanish rule that had controlled the Philippines since the sixteenth century. Led by Emilio Aguinaldo (1869-1964), the 1896 revolt ...

A closer look at the significance of the first such goodwill visit of its kind since the colonial era relationship between the two sides.

It is often buffeted by typhoons and other storms. The Philippines - a Spanish colony for more than three centuries, and named after a 16th Century Spanish king - was taken over by the US in the ...

The 380 years of war and rebellion that followed – first against Spain, then against the United States from 1898 – read like the script of an award-winning epic. The Philippines achieved full ...