Maj. Gen. Elwell Otis of the imperialistic U.S. "fighting, having begun, must go on to the grim end"
1898 - President Emilio Aguinaldo y Famy of the
still-in-revolution Philippine Republic writes to gullibly ask George
Dewey, admiral of the emerging imperialist United States, to forward to
Washington his June 18 and 23 decrees establishing a revolutionary dictatorial government to continue the fight for independence, further stating that "the desires on this government are to remain always in friendship with the great North American nation, to which we are under many obligations"; on this same day, the 4th U.S. Military Expedition to the Philippines sails for Manila
under Maj. Gen. Elwell S. Otis, in what would later prove to be preparation for the
imperialistic American invasion of the Philippines: Otis would oversee
many of the American atrocities in the bloody and protracted Filipino-American War (1899-1914) that their forces would surreptitiously instigate come February of the following year, and
would be quoted for saying "fighting, having begun, must go on to the grim end" in response to Aguinaldo's plea for an end to the war; around eight months earlier, Dewey forged an alliance with Aguinaldo, deceptively promising
to honor Philippine independence, during the (second phase of) the
Philippine Revolution intersecting with the Bald Eagle's war against
Spain; apparently fooled into thinking it is part of the supposed
alliance, Aguinaldo a few weeks stupidly earlier ordered his men "not to interfere" with the North Americans, inadvertently allowing the free entry of the G.I.'s that would lead to the infamous August 1898 Mock Battle of Manila
that would falsely make it appear that the Americans--instead of the
Filipino revolutionaries--are responsible for defeating the Spaniards in
the Southeast Asian archipelago; the baseless Treaty of Paris "ceding"
the Philippines to the Bald Eagle nation would be signed, the U.S.
Congress would approve, the enemy Americans will invade with might and cruelty and the
Filipinos would unsuccessfully fight a protracted and bloody war to
preserve their newfound freedom and dignity.
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