Within hours, fighting had broken out along the demarkation line between US and Filipino forces. In the years that followed, fifteen U.S. soldiers died for every man dead in Cuba, at a cost of $600 million, and 200,000 Filipinos died, of whom 20,000 were combatants. ...
(Historical Terms) the war between the US and Spain (1898) resulting in Spain's withdrawal from Cuba and its cession of Guam, the Philippines, and Puerto Rico Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged, 12th Edition 2014 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003, ...
Spanish missionaries brought the first printing press to the Philippines in the 1590s. Tomas Pinpin, a Chinese merchant who had been converted to Christianity, put up the shop to house the press. He worked under the tutelage of the Dominican friars to produce in 1593 what is believed to be ...
Commodore George Dewey led the American naval fleet into Manila Bay in the Philippines early on May 1, 1898. Before delaying the Battle of Manila Bay to give his crew a second breakfast, he annihilated the Spanish fleet that was moored for two hours. U.S. surveillance discovered the elusive...
Juan Sebastian Elcano completed the expedition after Magellan's death. The ship will visit Baler Bay to honor the Spanish and Filipino soldiers who died in the Battle of Baler. The Siege of Baler marked the last stand of Spanish forces in the Philippines. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Next ...
In this work, Mehl brings another group of migrants into the picture: military recruits. Between 1765 and 1811, viceregal authorities dispatched roughly 4000 recruits from Mexico to the Philippines. Many of these soldiers were forcibly recruited, either as convicts or as transients caught in the ...
Puerto Rico and Guam were ceded to the United States as indemnity, and the Philippines were surrendered to the United States for a payment of $20 million. The United States emerged from the war with new international power. In both Latin America and East Asia it had established an imperial ...
BY virtue of Republic Act 9187, the Philippine-Spanish Friendship Day Act, enacted into law in 2003, the celebration of Philippine-Spanish Friendship Day is held on June 30 every year to strengthen the historical and cultural ties, friendship and cooperation between the Philippines and Spain. It...
The first European immigrants did not intend to settle permanently in the Philippines. Spanish settlement proved transitory during the 400 years of Spain's colonial occupation. The first contact between Spain and the Philippines occurred in March of 1521, when Ferdinand Magellan's fleet reached the ...
Soldiers of Salamis, The Tenant and the Motive, buena temporada Javier Cercas Mena (born 1962 in Ibahernando) is a writer and professor of Spanish literature at the University of Girona, Spain. He was born in Ibahernando, Cáceres, Spain. He is a frequent contributor to the Catalan edition...