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Filipinos captured by American invaders |
1898 - After being led to believe through verbal promises by United States officials [the consuls in Singapore and Hong Kong, Admiral George Dewey and Gen. Thomas Anderson] that America is an ally, President Emilio Aguinaldo writes to Gen. Anderson of his people's expectations that while foreign powers have not yet acknowledged the Philipppine Republic, "the great North American nation, which struggled first for its independence, and afterward for the abolition of slavery and is now actually struggling for the independence of Cuba, would look upon [Filipino assertion of sovereignty] with greater benevolence than any other nation"; exactly a year later, on July 24, 1899, almost six months into the bloody Philppine-American War, Foreign Minister Apolinario Mabini will optimistically write about how "favorable public opinion (on Philippine independence) in America is steadily gaining ground to the detriment of the imperialist party."
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