1898 - Some three days before the infamous Mock Battle of Manila, Spanish-blooded Filipino Antonio Ma. J. Regidor becomes a
member of the Executive Board of the Hong Kong Junta tasked with seeking
international recognition of Philippine sovereignty following Gen. Emilio F. Aguinaldo's June
12 declaration of Philippine Independence against colonial Spain; Regidor, who
will be part of the Agoncillo missions
that will present the Philippine case before the United States
Congress amidst the looming imperialist advances of the Bald Eagle nation, believe that the only real and enduring tie between Filipinos
and Americans are commercial in nature, and will advocate financial and
economic, but not political/colonial, relations with the US; some three or four months earlier, amidst the Spanish-American War roughly intersecting with a supposed lull in the Philippine
Revolution, Bald Eagle Admiral
George Dewey forged an "alliance"
with Aguinaldo in fighting Spain, with the latter
and other imperialist American military and diplomatic officials taking turns in
conning the Filipino general into believing that the U.S. will honor the
independence of the Filipinos; Aguinaldo would stupidly allow the free entry
of GI's into the archipelago, allowing the Bald Eagle forces to
position themselves for what would be the Mock Battle designed to falsely show the world that it is the Americans instead of the Filipino revolutionaries that have defeated Spain in the Southeast Asian archipelago; the looming imperialist Bald Eagle nation would eventually invade the Philippines,
triggering the bloody and protracted Filipino-American War (1899-1914).
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