- "You May Fire When You Are Ready, Gridley"
U.S. Navy Captain Charles Gridley earned a place in history on May 1, 1898, during the Battle of Manila Bay - article from the History Net website.
http://europeanhistory.about.com/library/prm/blyoumayfire1.htm?terms=gridle
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- A Gift from the Gods
Annexation of the Philippines - "I have been criticized a good deal about the Philippines," McKinley said, "but I don't deserve it. The truth is . . . they came to us as a gift from the gods." - from Small Planet Communications,
http://www.smplanet.com/imperialism/gift.html
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- A Splendid Little War
The Pacific fleet was visiting Hong Kong when the news of war arrived. Commodore George Dewey quickly provisioned his ships and set off to attack the Spanish colony in the Philippine Islands - from Small Planet Communications.
http://www.smplanet.com/imperialism/splendid.html
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- A War In Perspective
The New York Public Library Online Exhibition on the Spanish American War which is a part of "1898ǃÏ1998: A War Becomes History," a series of exhibitions and programs at eight cultural and academic institutions in the metropolitan New York area, organized to mark the centenary of the Spanish-American War.
http://www.nypl.org/research/chss/epo/spanexhib/index.html
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- Admiral Camara's Philippines Relief Expedition
The shocking outcome of the Battle of Manila Bay spurred the Spanish government to organize a relief expedition. To confront Dewey's U.S. Asiatic Squadron, Rear Admiral Manuel de la Camara was given Spain's only modern battleship, Pelayo, her largest cruiser, Carlos V, three modern torpedo boat destroyers and two large auxiliary cruisers.
http://www.history.navy.mil/photos/events/spanam/events/camarasq.htm
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- America's Imperialist War of 1898
In 1898, the United States was fighting the Spanish-American War. The victory over Spain made the United States a colonial power. The Spanish colonies of Cuba, Puerto Rico, Guam, and the Philippines, as well as the formerly independent nation of Hawaii, became American possessions - from The Progress Report.
http://www.progress.org/fold37.htm
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- Boondocksnet.com
Derived from the Tagalog word bundok, meaning mountain, "boondocks" became part of American vocabulary during the Philippine-American War. The boondocks were a contested terrain. They were bases of resistance. In American usage the word means hinterland, back country, or a remote and underdeveloped area - from Jim Zwick.
http://www.boondocksnet.com
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- Candamo - Paginas Militares
From a Puerto Rican website about various topics including the Spanish-American War and the events surrounding the Philippine American War. Gives details about the Spanish army light infantry unit which surrendered at Baler in 1899. In Spanish and English.
http://candamo.iespana.es/candamo
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- Chronology of the Spanish American War
A listing of significan events of the Spanish American War including events pertaining to the Philippines - from the US Library of Congres
http://rs7.loc.gov/rr/hispanic/1898/chronology.html
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- Civilize Them With A Krag
Following its victory in the Spanish-American War the United States was confronted with the question of the division of the spoils of war . . . a decision that captured the attention of the world and divided the nation.
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Forum/3807/features/krag.html
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- Diary of Earl Bohannon
Personal accounts of the
Spanish-American War of 1898 with associated footnotes - from the Kansas GenWeb.
http://skyways.lib.ks.us/genweb/archives/dickinson/bios/earlboh.htm
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- El Sitio de Baler: Los Ultimos de Filipinas
An article by an artillery colonel about the surrender of Spanish forces at Baler in 1899 which marked the end of the Spanish empire in Asia. In Spanish.
http://members.es.tripod.de/riogallo66/sitio_de_baler.htm
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- Events - Spanish-American War
Online library of selected images from the Naval Historical Center.
http://www.history.navy.mil/photos/events/spanam/eve-pge.htm
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- Filipinohome.com
Nestor Palugod Enriquez's vast resource page on Philippine history, Filipino American history, Philippine culture and Filipinos in the US Navy.
http://www.filipinohome.com
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- General Frederick Funston (1865-1917)
Commander of the 1st brigade, 2d devision of the 8th Army Corps in the Philippines - he was active in the capture of Aguinaldo - from the Museum of the City of San Francisco.
http://www.sfmuseum.org/1906/funston.html
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- George Percival Scriven: An American in Bohol, the Philippines 1899-1901
In 1898 George Percival Scriven served as the chief signal officer of the department of the Gulf in the Spanish-American War, and then with the 4th Philippine expedition where he served on the staff of General Welsley Merritt and was part of the occupying force of Bohol Island under the command of Major Hale. This site is a transcript of his Bohol diary from the On-line Archival Collection Special Collections Library, Duke University.
http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/scriven
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- Images of War and Empire
A collection of links from Jim Zwick's Sentenaryo/Centennial The Philippines Revolution and Philippine-American War page.
http://www.boondocksnet.com/centennial/image.html
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- Lighting From the Clouds
The US Army and the Moro Wars. The enemy and the war were almost military secrets in 1913. Shadowed by indifference and design they have remained so. After all, "peace" had been officially declared by the United States in the Philippines in 1902 - from Savage and Soldier Online.
http://www.dnai.com/~soongliu/SavageAndSoldier/articles/asia/Moro.html
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- Makibaka!
An intergenerational oral history and performance project, focused on the 100th anniversary of the Philippine American War, that will unfold through and interactive multimedia CD-ROM.
http://redrocketmedia.com/makibaka
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- Mark Twain on War and Imperialism
Mark Twain was the most prominent literary opponent of the Philippine-American War and he served as a vice president of the Anti-Imperialist League from 1901 until his death in 1910.
http://www.boondocksnet.com/ai/twain/index.html
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