In 1898, just as the Philippine Revolutionary Army was defeating the Spanish colonists, the U.S. army suddenly declared war against Spain and officially intervened in the Philippine war, and soon the Spanish army was forced to retreat to Manila by the U.S.-Philippine coalition, and the Philippine Hundred Years' War of Independence seemed to be victorious.
The trigger of the Spanish-American War, the Maine Hava, sank in that harbor
"There is no plain and unprovoked love in the world, let alone unprovoked hatred", the United States declared war on Spain not for world peace, let alone spread the so-called freedom and democracy; at the end of the 19th century, the emerging capital countries led by the United States developed rapidly, the monopoly bourgeoisie was eager to expand, and overseas colonization was undoubtedly their best choice, but the world had been divided up by old empires such as Britain and France; the tiger's mouth naturally picked up the weak first, and Spain, which only had cuba and the Philippines in its hands, became fat in the eyes of the Americans.
Trapped in a corner, Spain secretly reached an agreement with the United States to transfer the Philippines to the United States for twenty million US dollars, and in order to make the play between the United States and the United States and the West, it also directed a Manila landing operation, so that the Philippines was pit by its "allies" without knowing it.
At the Battle of Manila, the U.S. army completely annihilated the Spanish Navy
Since the Philippines became a Spanish colony in 1565, the Philippine War of Independence has been going on for more than three hundred years, and now it is "sold" to the United States by Spain, which will naturally cause a new round of resistance; and the behavior of the United States is even more completely infuriated by the Filipino people, the revolutionary army led by Aguinaldo is frantically expanding, from 18 to 35 years old men are their conscription targets, more than 40,000 rebels participating in the siege of Manila, and more than 40,000 rebels in other provinces.
The US military has advanced weapons and strong economic strength, with Manila as the starting point to gradually expand the base area, the commander-in-chief of the US military in the Philippines, Yuel Otis, ordered the US military to violently suppress the cause of the Philippine revolution, the Philippine Revolutionary Army, although brave, but also unable to withstand the continuous bombardment of aircraft and artillery, after a year of fighting, the Philippine Revolutionary Army was defeated and retreated, and finally the first President of the Philippines, Aguinaldo, ordered the troops to transfer to the countryside to carry out guerrilla warfare, the regular army transformed into a guerrilla, and the regular war turned into guerrilla warfare. The advanced weapons of the US military temporarily lost their superiority.
Arthur MacArthur, father of Douglas MacArthur
By 1901, the Philippine Revolutionary Army had annihilated nearly 10,000 American troops, and the more it suppressed, the more resistant it became, and the First Attempt by the United States was the bloodshed behind colonial rule; in February of the same year, the Commander-in-Chief of the United States in the Philippines, Juurel Ortis, was transferred back to China for his delay in stabilizing the situation in the Philippines, and was succeeded by the famous Arthur MacArthur, whose son was Douglas MacArthur, who would become famous in Asia.
MacArthur the Elder immediately ended ortiz's bloody repression, believing that the Philippines longed for freedom and that only by allowing the Philippines to gain sovereignty could the antagonistic relations between the two countries be eased, and he spread the news to the Filipino people through various channels; soon the U.S. military received an important piece of information, the Leader of the Philippine Revolution, Aguinaldo, was hiding in Paranan, and the elder MacArthur immediately sent a squad to arrest him.
Emilio Aguinaldo, the first president of the Philippines
The whole arrest process was very smooth, when Aguinaldo was brought into the American barracks was warmly welcomed by the elder MacArthur, the US military spread the news of the warm talks between the old MacArthur and Aguinaldo throughout the Philippines, and soon the revolutionary armies everywhere began to lay down their arms, and the old MacArthur took the opportunity to announce a general amnesty, as long as the revolutionary army laid down its weapons not only not guilty but also received certain compensation, the national resistance gradually subsided.
When asked years later about the intentions of the U.S. military to occupy the Philippines, the elder MacArthur replied: "... The idea of freedom to the filipino people has grown considerably in the United States. In fact, the so-called "freedom" is only a whitewash of imperialist colonial rule, the old MacArthur advocated much like the American politicians at that time said "appeasement", when the revolution laid down its arms, what awaited them was the arbitrary ravages of imperialism, in 1902 the old MacArthur happily announced to Washington and the world that the Us-Philippines War was over, and the war of independence, which had lasted for 6 years, was easily disintegrated by the old MacArthur.
MacArthur
Recent world history has proved that compromise cannot be exchanged for real sovereignty, when the Filipino revolutionaries laid down their arms, the real sovereignty of the Philippines has fallen into the hands of the Americans, many years later, when the Japanese army is ready to step into Southeast Asia, the Philippine national defense construction can only rely on the Americans, the old MacArthur's so-called transition from the "military control government" to the "civilian government" is nothing more than a deceptive lie, because his son Doug MacArthur is turning the Philippines into the forefront of the United States to dominate the Far East, ask where the so-called sovereignty of the Philippines comes from!