1900 -Gen. Isidoro Torres y Dayao, the politico-military chief of Bulacan province,
receives from Gen. Emilio Aguinaldo y Famy, President of the Philippine
Republic-on-the-run during the Filipino-American War (1899-1914), a letter
instructing him to adopt effective counter-measures against the
imperialist American soldiers who make alluring offers to tempt the
native soldiers to abandon the fight for the sovereignty of their
motherland; during the inauguration of the Philippine Republic on January 23, 1899, Torres led a 6,000-strong army
that marched during the historic parade, which occurred just under two
weeks before the United States began its invasion of the
Southeast Asian archipelago; earlier in the summer of 1897 during the second phase of the Philippine Revolution, with the US rather concurrently fighting a war against Spain, American Admiral George Dewey forged an
"alliance"
with Aguinaldo; such 'alliance,' however, would turn out to be a sinister deceptive ploy of the Bald
Eagle nation that would soon renege on its military leaders' promises of
honoring Philippine Independence, and even staging the infamous Mock Battle of Manila
that would falsely make it appear that the Americans, instead of the
Filipino revolutionaries, defeated the Spanish colonial forces in the archipelago and the capital, Manila, as prelude to the
baseless December 1898 Treaty of Paris where by that time, the
virtually expelled Spaniards will supposedly "cede" the Philippines to
imperialist America.
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