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US Forces, on a sinister hidden plan to invade the Philippines, disembark |
1898 - Imperialist United States Gen. Thomas M. Anderson
communicates from the Philippines to the Adjutant-General in
Washington, D.C. that he foresees a possible conflict with Filipino forces, some three months after the Americans forged an 'alliance' with the Filipinos during (the second phase of) the Philippine 'Himagsikan' against Spain; the communication of Anderson, designated commander of the US land forces in the Southeast Asian archipelago during the rather concurrent Spanish-American War,
comes only three days after he had been informed by Philippine
President Gen. Emilio Aguinaldo y Famy that the latter has acceded to
Anderson's request, ordering his soldiers "not to interfere"
with the American forces who have been entering the country supposedly
as part of the US efforts against Spain; Commodore George Dewey had
earlier met with Aguinaldo to strike an alliance, deceptively assuring
the then-revolutionary leader that America intends to honor Philippine
independence as Anderson later professed his nation's sympathy with Filipinos; by August, the US and Spain will vilely stage the infamous Mock Battle of Manila that falsely showed to the world that the Americans instead of the Filipinos defeated the Spaniards in the Philippines;
in five months' time, the Treaty of Paris will be signed, with the
virtually ousted-by-Filipinos Spain ridiculously 'ceding' the
Philippines to the Bald Eagle nation for $20,000,000 US, and on February
4, 1899, American generals will deliberately instigate the bloody and protracted Philippine-American War (1899-1914) in
the nefarious bid of the US President William McKinley to make their
Congress approve the Treaty of Paris and the annexation [translation:
invasion] of the fledgling Southeast Asian nation.
Photo credit: Filipiniana.net
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