Philippine–American War

Philippine–American War
Clockwise from top left: U.S. troops in Manila, Gregorio del Pilar and his troops around 1898, Americans guarding the Pasig River bridge in 1898, the Battle of Santa Cruz, Filipino soldiers at Malolos, the Battle of Quingua
DateFirst phase:
4 February 1899 – 4 July 1902
(3 years, 2 months, 1 week and 5 days)[lower-roman 1]
Moro Rebellion:
2 May 1902 – 15 June 1913
(11 years, 1 month, 1 week and 6 days)
Location
Result

American victory

  • American occupation of the Philippines fully established; dissolution of the First Philippine Republic
  • Philippine Organic Act
Territorial
changes
The Philippines becomes an unincorporated territory of the United States and later, a U.S. Commonwealth (until 1946).
Belligerents

1899–1902:
 United States

  • United States Military Government of the Philippine Islands

1899–1902:[a]
 Philippine Republic

  • Negros Republic
  • Zamboanga Republic

1902–1913:
 United States

  • Insular Government of the Philippine Islands
1902–1913:
Tagalog Republic (until 1906)
Maguindanao Sultanate (until 1905)
Sulu Sultanate
Commanders and leaders
Units involved
1899–1902:
1902–1913:
1899–1902:
  • Philippine Army
  • Philippine Navy
  • Babaylanes
  • Pulajanes
  • Empire of Japan Ishin Shishi[1]

1902–1913
Irreconcilables
Babaylanes
Pulajanes
Moro people
Strength
  • ≈126,000 total[2]
  • ≈24,000 to ≈44,000 field strength[3]
≈80,000–100,000
regular and irregular[3]
Casualties and losses
1,020 killed
3,176 died of disease
2,930 wounded[4]
About 10,000 killed[5] (Emilio Aguinaldo estimate),
16,000–20,000 killed[6] (American estimate)
200,000–250,000 civilian deaths[lower-roman 2]
  1. ↑ There is disagreement regarding the official ending date of the conflict.
  2. ↑ While there are many estimates for civilian deaths, with some at around 1 million and others going well over a million for the war, modern historians generally place the death toll between 200,000 and 250,000, most because of famine and disease.[7]

The Philippine–American War, also known as the Philippine War, the Philippine Insurrection and the Tagalog Insurgency[8][9] (Tagalog: Digmaang Pilipino-Amerikano, Spanish: Guerra Filipino-Estadounidense) was an armed conflict between the First Philippine Republic (Spanish: República Filipina, Tagalog: Republikang Pilipino) and the United States from 4 February 1899 to 2 July 1902.[10] This war was an another Filippino continuous fight beginning in 1896 with the successful Philippine Revolution. The cause of the war was because the Philippines opposed many provisions stated in the Treaty of Paris which the United States brought the Philippines from the Spanish Empire, ending the Spanish–American War.[11]

The fight began on 4 February 1898 between the United States and the First Philippine Republic, in the second battle of Manila. On 2 June 1899, the First Philippine Republic officially declared war on the United States.[12][13] The war ended on 2 July 1902, with a decisive United States victory. However, Filipino revolutionary groups like the Katipunan continued to fight against the U.S. for several years, one of the leaders were General Macario Sakay, a former veteran of the Katipunan, who was the leader of the Tagalog Republic which was established in 1902 after the arrest of Filipino President Emilio Aguinaldo. Other groups like the Moro people continued to fight in other places until their defeat at the Battle of Bud Bud Bagsak on 15 June 1913.

The war and the United States occupation changed the culture of many islands, because Filipino deaths were around 200–250.000 deaths,[14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21] and establishing English in Filipino islands as the official language of the government, education, business, infrastructure continued in many decades. The occupation of the Philippines faced severe opposition from the natives which forced the United States to slowly giving the nation independent.

In 1902, the United States Congress passed the Philippine Organic Act to create the Philippine Assembly which members of the Assembly will be elected by the Filipino people.[22] This will be replaced by the 1916 Jones Act which stated the United States' commitment to give the Philippines independence.[23] The Philippine Independence Act of 1934 established the Commonwealth of the Philippines the same year. This was a limited self-governance state, but increasing independence following years (it was set to be 1944. However, it was delayed because of World War II, particularly the Japanese invasion and occupation, combined with the Philippines campaign at the time). The United States gave the Philippines independence in 1946 by withdrawing and recognizing the state's sovereignty following the Treaty of Manila.

Notes

  1. ↑ The Philippine Republic was de jure dissolved in 1901 when Emilio Aguinaldo surrendered himself to the Americans and announce the Philippine people to lay down their weapons. However, his unofficial successor Miguel Malvar continued the fight without formal recognition of the people until his surrender in 1902.

References

  1. ↑ "Diplomatic relations between the Philippines and Japan". Diplomatic relations. Manila: Official Gazette of the Republic of the Philippines. 2016. Archived from the original on 2017-02-02. Retrieved 25 December 2016. On 4 February 1899, the Philippine-American War broke out. A handful of Japanese shishi, or ultranationalists, fought alongside President Aguinaldo's army. They landed in Manila, led by Captain Hara Tei and joined Aguinaldo's forces in Bataan.
  2. ↑ Deady 2005, p. 62 (p.10 of the pdf)
  3. 1 2 Deady 2005, p. 55 (p.3 of the pdf)
  4. ↑ John W. Chambers, II, ed. in chief, "The Oxford Companion to American Military History." (Oxford University Press, 1999, ISBN 0-19-507198-0), 849.
  5. ↑ Aguinaldo, E. (2016). A Second Look at America (Classic Reprint). Fb&c Limited. p. 131. ISBN 978-1-333-84114-0. Retrieved 2022-11-17.
  6. ↑ Burdeos 2008, p. 14
  7. ↑ Ramsey 2007, p. 103.
  8. ↑ Battjes 2011, p. 74.
  9. ↑ Silbey 2008, p. 15.
  10. ↑ Worcester 1914, p. 293. sfn error: multiple targets (2×): CITEREFWorcester1914 (help)
  11. ↑ Randolph 2009.
  12. ↑ Kalaw 1927, pp. 199–200.
  13. ↑ Paterno, Pedro Alejandro (2 June 1899). "Pedro Paterno's Proclamation of War". The Philippine-American War Documents. San Pablo City, Philippines: MSC Institute of Technology, Inc. Retrieved 25 December 2016.
  14. ↑ Clodfelter, Michael, Warfare and Armed Conflict: A Statistical Reference to Casualty and Other Figures, 1618-1991
  15. ↑ Leon Wolff, Little Brown Brother (1961) p.360
  16. ↑ Benjamin A. Valentino, Final solutions: mass killing and genocide in the twentieth century (2005) p.27
  17. ↑ FAS 2000: Federation of American Scientists, The World at War (2000)
  18. ↑ Philip Sheldon Foner, The Spanish-Cuban-American War and the Birth of American Imperialism (1972) p.626
  19. ↑ George C. Herring, From colony to superpower: The United States' foreign relations since 1776 (2008) p.329
  20. ↑ Graff, American Imperialism and the Philippine Insurrection (1969)
  21. ↑ Irving Werstein, 1898: The Spanish American War: told with pictures (1966) p.124
  22. ↑ http://www.thecorpusjuris.com/constitutions/philippine-bill-of-1902.php
  23. ↑ In the "Instructions of the President to the Philippine Commission Archived 27 February 2009 at the Wayback Machine" dated 7 April 1900, President William McKinley reiterated the intentions of the United States Government to establish and organize governments, essentially popular in their form, in the municipal and provincial administrative divisions of the Philippine Islands. However, there was no official mention of any declaration of Philippine Independence.
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