A War of Empire and Frontier: The Philippine-American War, 1899-1902
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- Dr. David J. Silbey, Associate Professor of History, Algeria College.
It was America's first imperial war, and America's last war of the frontier. It was a war of battles, of frontal assaults, of artillery, and flank attacks, and barbed wire and trenches. It has been termed an insurgency, a revolution, a guerrilla war, and a conventional war. As David Silbey demonstrates in this taut, compelling history, the 1899 Philippine-American War was in fact all of these.
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I'm an American and I knew very little about the Philippine-American War. This was very informative. Thank you!
re: one of the Q&A - "massacre" refers to the extent of the casualties inflicted on the losing side, not the legitimacy of the attack.
The patron relationships are an interesting aspect of Filipino culture I had never heard of before.
If the USA doesn't take the Philippines from Spain then Germany would have, and the treatment of the Filipinos would have been much worse. Although that would have lead to Japan taking the Philippines from Germany in WW1 and thus no Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941.
After the Spanish-American War, Cuba and the Philippines should have both been put on the road to independence, with a clear road map. However, neither should have been granted immediate independence, even though both wanted it. They simply weren't prepared for all that it entailed.
I was born in the Philippines in 1934, and have studied the Phil-Am War. This presentation is accurate, although it is much more complex than he could tell in one hour. The best source of data is in the "Affairs in the Philippine Islands" US Senate hearings in 1902. It is 10,000 pages long, but is full of data for anyone really interested in what happened.
Thank you for the lead.
My great-grandnanny, Teresa MAGBANUA, the Lady Warrior from Pototan, Iloilo fought against Spain earned the moniker, Joan of Arc" of the Visayas, was banished to Mindanao by the American "liberators".
Mr. Gordon, I wish I could get in contact with you.
i really like this
thanks for uploading
Professor Silbey mentioned a very good point, i.e. about patron-client relationship that we have in our society. The same exists today where politicians no matter how how vile they are, are still supported by masses, by regions, by provinces out of their feudal relations, and not on principles.
This is not the real story, this is a cover up.
The truth is that the Americans wanted to conquer the Philippines. They didn’t know that it will be harder than they thought. They met a lot of resistance and there were even an incident that a whole American Army company was killed and the Americans had their revenge by killing everyone, men, women and even kid as young as 10. And this is what they did everywhere. They did this to eliminate witnesses. The estimate number Filipinos killed were from 1.4 million to 3 million. They covered this up and made sure it will not come up. They controlled everything and everyone, even education. History books were written according to what the Americans wanted it to be. Every information were suppressed and it only came up again after the dictator marcos was unseated. So basically the story was hidden for generations of Filipinos. Even up to now, almost all Filipinos don’t know what really happened then.
I think the truth will never be acknowledged by the USA. Remember this happened right after what they did to the American Indians. Which by the way is the same name they call the Filipinos then, Indians. They will never admit what they did to the American Indians much more what they did to the Filipinos when nobody would probably know if they decided to just eliminate them completely because it’s a group of islands. Nobody can easily escape. It was genocide. Very sad and dark part of the history of the Philippines. And honestly, there’s nothing the Filipinos can do about it. There’s a lot of things the Filipinos will have to consider and it’s not really worth what they’ll lose now. Ironically this was also the situation the Filipinos were in when this happened. He sad thing is, being the most loyal and longest ally of America in that region, the Americans didn’t really help the Philippines as much as they can. They actually helped South Korea way more than Philippines. The Philippines actually gets the least amount of financial aid from the US compared to all of the countries around it. The Filipinos never complained about it, the don’t like doing that. They got too much pride. They just move on.
Filipinos are kind and welcoming people. They went through a lot of injustice from other countries. And it will be almost impossible to get justice. The situation is too complicated and it will lose a lot to demand it. I hope someday the Philippines get to be prosperous and peaceful again. They deserve it.
I'm a Filipino and not all are kind to abusers we as individual we must act as an revenge I lessen the pride of USA people by defeating them in any fighting game or sports such as mma or airgun. Yes it's just a play of sports evn tho it hurts but it boosts our morale and pride and I will do this as long as I can. Lastly bullies I did act to stop and defeat bullies because I learned monsters grew when u feeed them but when u go against the tide of the devils and didn't stop u will change the world plus act of random kindness. It's war between good and evil and truth vs lies.
Don, I agree completely. America will never expose the catastrophe they caused and still continue to create. As a Filipino, it feels like a betrayal to myself existing here, in the oppressor’s home. Literally every historical exchange between the Philippines and America have been lopsided and to the benefit of the U.S. only.
His lecture was not "carefully studied." He was misinformed and so biased and enthusiastic about reiterating lies he read and heard (in terms of the bigger picture).
I listened to the whole thing to not be one-sided; it was mostly glorified lies and white noise (someone pointed this out, and no. No pun intended. I don't care about race/color, I care about transparency).
Appreciated some fascinatingly useless details though. I feel sorry for all sides that were kept in the dark. Boondocks = genocide. And from what I heard, that McArthur quote, was definitely not held in a good light by the Philippines.
There were too many things I wanted to straighten out in his lecture. But just like most Filipinos, if I'm not being physically attacked, I let it go.
Most US high school textbooks call it Aguinaldo's Insurrection and give it all of one or two paragraphs.
Sir.. *You are correct on these;*
1. Destruction of Spanish fleet in Manila Bay on 1st May 1898 by the American fleet
(Montojo vs. Dewey)
2. McKinley unaware of the event and was caught indecisive as to what to do with the
Philippines. while sending actually about 12,000 American volunteers in Manila..
3. . McKinley finally decided sometime in December 1898 to claim the Philippines and pay
the Spanish (Treaty of Paris). McKinley was eventually guided by his "Manifest
Destiny"....
*You are questionable on these..*
1. The Filipinos were aware of McKinley;s decision and they were shocked.. No they were
not because Elwell Otis watered down McKinley;s directive when he met with
Aguinaldo sometime in January 1899 because months earlier he did met Aguinaldo
and were guaranteed of Americas benign intensions except the condition that
Filipinos were not allowed to enter Intramuros (Old Manila).
2. Aguinaldo was not just a Patron - He was the elected president of the revolutionary
repuiblic (Tejeros convention) that fought against Spain. That was why he was able
to resume the revolution against Spain when he returned to Manila along with
Dewey.. On June 12, 1898 he hoisted the Philippine flag and declared Philippine
Independence.. Less than a month after that, he established the Philippine
Republic.
3. It was an American sentry William W. Grayson who fired the first shot on February 4,
1899. The next day, February 5, the war offically begun. Arthur McArthur lead the
American division on a March north to Malolos to capture Aguinaldo
4. Emilio Aguinaldo was the president of the Philippine republic with a functioning
cabinet headed by Apolinario Mabini and a constitution ratified in Malolos while
Antonio Luna was the Chief Commander of his Army.
5. Antonio Luna;s assassination as understood by Apolinario Mabini was not the
handiwork of Aguinaldio but other cabinet members in connivance with junmior
officers (Pedro Janolino of the Cavite brigade) who had personal grudge) against
Antonio Luna. .
6. The war was lopsided, in fact a massacre because the American troops used the
M1898 Trench guns supported by gatling guns and artillery cannons while Filipino
troops used two types inferior rifles, the 1898 Gewehr Mausers which they took
away from the Spanish soldiers and the Remigtion Rolling Block rifles which
Aguinaldo bought while in exile in Hong-Kong. Do you even know how these
differences work out in the real battlefield? I tell you it is massacre.
Galing mo kabayan! Madami pa kong hindi alam! From the south here
Silbey is bias....didn't know exactly the history of WW1. its not correct at all. Mr. Tallado paid the amount of $20 M. to the Spaniards & not the US...., wrong, wrong of what his narrating. The US at that time didn't have that amount of money, they were at that time were been still colonize by Britain.
Hi I would like to ask, you seem to know about this conflict as you are making comments about the lecture, i dont know much except general stuff, do u recommend any resources for a 4000 word research essay i am doing. Any help appreciated, thanks :)
I only ask because i cant find much information about this conflict and i dont just want to take Silbey's view but i want to find other viewpoints too.
Well that made a lot of sense. education on history about the Phil-am war here in manila are vague at best. They never discussed how the aspect of traditional warfare became a form of guerrilla warfare and it's handling.
As someone deeply involved in Philippine history I dod have a few quibbles, but over all a fairly good briefing.
It wasnt an insurgency, we were fighting for our freedom because we were tired of being ruled and occupied by the Spanish, the Japanese, and then the Americans
We? Not every Filipino was on board with Aguinaldo. Did you forget about the Macabebe Scouts? It seems that killing an entire Kampanpangan village in retaliation for helping the Spanish wasn't the best idea.
Bravo
"There is the case of the Philippines. I have tried hard, and yet I cannot for the life of me comprehend how we got into that mess. Perhaps we could not have avoided it-perhaps it was inevitable that we should come to be fighting the natives of those islands-but I cannot understand it, and have never been able to get at the bottom of the origin of our antagonism to the natives. I thought we should act as their protector-not try to get them under our heel. We were to relieve them from Spanish tyranny to enable them to set up a government of their own, and we were to stand by and see that it got a fair trial. It was not to be a government according to our ideas, but a government that represented the feeling of the majority of the Filipinos, a government according to Filipino ideas. That would have been a worthy mission for the United States. But now-why, we have got into a mess, a quagmire from which each fresh step renders the difficulty of extrication immensely greater. I'm sure I wish I could see what we were getting out of it, and all it means to us as a nation."
- Mark Twain
Shame on you United States of America, shame on you.
+Guillermo Evaristo Tijerina Velázquez This was the true tyranny, The US Tyranny, and the true human and cultural Phillippine genocide
José 83 LMAO are you joking? Spanish rule or pretty much any imperial power in history was so much worse than American. Texans and Floridians know this from experience. Did the Spanish allow Filipino independence after 40 years? Did we impose a religion on you like the Spanish did or Muslims did? Did we enslave the native population or levy taxation? That is true tyranny. Hell, Filipinos even had representation in government, more than the American colonies had while under British dominion.
This is missing a lot of important stuff, but I just want to comment on the armament gap for those skeptical: they were indeed roughly equal in terms of arms technology(during the conventional stage at least) because the Philippine Army at that time had bolt-action rifles as their standard armament, and they also had artillery and machine-guns. Yes, machine-guns.
I found this a very informative lecture, on a subject not well known by most US citizens
It struck me that this was happening at the same time as England's Boer War
with similarities such as concentration camps and flying columns and the like
down to the conquered becoming steadfast allies of the conquerors in WWII !
Dan Johnston Yes, many Yanks on youtube - are quick to judge and are well versed with the negative aspects of the British Empire. At the same time they are totally oblivious that their own country perfidy in i.e the Phillipines .
@HajtomY I agree--Silbey is leaving a whole lot of stuff out; like Dewey's refusal to make a written promise of independence and his reneging on his promise of Philippine independence to Aguinaldo after using him to help defeat Spain. Notice how he never quite used the term "concentration camp" although that's exactly what they were. And you're right about the armament gap; bolos, old Spanish muskets, and even bows and arrows aren't exactly equal to Krags, Gatling guns, and artillery.
I don't know where you're coming from but the main army of Aguinaldo was well equipped, the problem was they weren't cohesive, for example Gen. Antonio Luna, had a battle with the Americans and they were winning, he however needed extra support to finish the fight, however Aguinaldo's bodyguards refused to help Gen Antonio Luna despite the fact that they were technically still under his command. I think what hampered the Filipinos was its immaturity as a nation, rather than the weapons aspect. Filipinos has the advantage to bleed out the Americans in a prolonged conflict, just like what happened in Vietnam.
@@ian2008931 Thanks for the information, Ian! One of my ancestors was with the 23rd US Infantry; they seem to have encountered Filipinos (Moros, I think) who were armed with a miscellany of weapons, including bolo knives and spears--this was on Mindanao, if I remember correctly--I'll have to get out his diary again.
@@galoon Wow that's pretty amazing, thanks for sharing.
At 31:29, he mentions that Aguinaldo was losing credibility and anyone who suggests another way of winning. That Aguinaldo was more worried about losing his credibility than winning the war, thus he had Luna assassinated when the later proposed another way to win the war thru unconventional or guerrilla warfare.
The only reason Admiral Dewey was able to enter Manila Bay was because the Commander in charge of Corregidor island had beforehand already defected to Aguinaldo and had effectively trapped the Spanish ships in Manila Bay
Dr. Silbey deliberately misinformed the audience for the ff reasons: 1. the Americans promised the Filipinos that they will be granted independence once the Spanish left. They lied 2. The americans were far superior in arms as they had machine guns and artillery while the filipinos were severely under armed and so had to make do with age old stolen/recovered spanish rifles. 3. silbey just told in passing the subject or fact where the americans committed atrocities even on unarmed and innocent civilians. 4. Mckinley knew what he was doing and had evil intention after the Spaniards left because he wanted to more american territory by taking islands like guam ,puerto rico andthe philippines. He also wanted resources/goods from the philippines. it is like the continuation of manifest destiny
I don't disagree with you except with the point about McKinley. I don't really think he knew what he was doing. Or else he "vacillated" to the point of plausible deniability.
he may has good reason how US-Filipino war escalated and yet his story wasn't as 100% as accurate he miss a lot of truth behind his story...i do agree with HajtomY..
This is sick
In May, 1897, Katipunan Supremo Andres Bonifacio was lured to Cavite to settle the disagreement between the Magdiwang and Magdalo factions of the Katipunan. At the Tejeros convention supposedly set up to settle the disagreement, Aguinaldo's representatives suddenly proposed the formation of a new revolutionary government. An election was held on the spot and Bonifacio lost his position as Supremo of the Katipunan. He denounced the election and left the convention. He was hunted down by Aguinaldo's group, tried and executed for treason. Aguinaldo's group took over leadership of the revolution. With Bonifacio dead, the Aguinaldo revolutionaries lost successive battles against the Spanish, retreating all the way to Montalban where they sued for peace in July, 1897, just two months after Bonifacio was executed.
+Richard Mason And hows that topic came in here?
Richard Mason Aguinaldo is a traitor
The Spaniards were too prideful, as said before, and didnt want to surrender to the Filipinos because they thought the Filipinos were trash
+Pnoy Bata False Spain was the onlyone European Empire who mix races with natives around all the world, the rest of European empires first erased natives and then, they brought European colonizers.
+José Luis Liaño i know this, although i dont know why that comes into play here
Adonis Guy Not at the same level, mostly of brasilian are White, black or mix White and black but not so much mix with natives
José Luis Liaño Portuguese mixed with East Timorese, Macao Chinese and Goa Indians.
Adonis Guy Yes 4 or 5 portugueses, Spanish Empire was a lot of millions
Thanks Prof. David Sylvie.
History is history without the past were never been here in present time.
There was considerable debate in the black press about annexation. They didn't have to be quick with the "white man's burden" response, it was part of the conversation.
Bataan is pronounced with 3 syllables. ba-ta-an
During the war The US Didn't Really Conquered all the Philippines,
Specially in Mindanao,in the Deepest Part Of Mindanao,No Foreign Invaders Entered Those Places,Even Spanish,US,Americans and even our own kind as Filipinos,Because of MissUnderstanding The Governmental Institutions,It's Hard to Conquer the Southern Philippines,
And By The Way,My GrandGrand Fathers said that Aguinaldo is not the Murderer of Bonifacio,It is the Kabihasnan ng Guira at Cibilisasyong pang Gobyerno ng Pilipinas,who really murdered Bonifacio,,,,,
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Ask Me About The Philippine History,I'll Answer it....
Yeah they did.
Hey dude ! How about the Bud Bagsak storylines?
It is supposed to be Andres Bonifacio Supremo of the KKK through voting but Aguinaldo don't let it happen ,insted he order his men assassinate Bonifacio .
But who killed Luna many generals that is useful against Americans if united and didn't being killed by own fellow Filipino people. And why Filipino are more united against spaniards than Americans
I thought Andres Bonifacio was assasinated. Some people belive aguinaldo killed him for power i disagree to that
Aguinaldo got screwed by Dewey...On my wall is an old "ammo-less" Krag-Jorgensen rifle, a scabbard-less dull bladed saber, a "native bolo" and faded photo of my great grandfather posing proudly with all of the above alongside his C.O. Gen. Ludovico Arejola. at the back of the Photo, and as is in His Journal written spanish-bicol, in literal transcript: "My gun, a gift to me from American", My bullets, my gift to Spain,
My blood, my gift to country, My soul , my gift to God...
Shame on you America!!! We Filipinos easily forgive, but we will never forget. May the Lord Yahuah God have mercy on you on your judgement day. Amen!
Amen.
Where was lord yahweh? You are an ignorant fool. Religion generates stupidity and ignorance. Get yourself an education.
@@JuanHernandez-ry9dr u are fool to think everything was made by big bang ur arrogance might put you to hell wish I hope not just repent and go To Jesus.
A war of American aggression based primarily on racism, greed, and blood thirst. White America saw an opportunity to become an Imperial power just like the Europeans (had it not been the US, Britain would have been next in line to take the Philippines)
Ironically Filipinos admired America and its revolution. The Philippine Republic constitution was based on the ideals set forth by the founding fathers of America. Filipinos were betrayed and America has now done its best to erase this dark period from its history books.
Mike Nakadai some say that the Germans were the next inline to colonize the Philippines.
Ironically, hardly had the US pacified the Philippines than it decided the Philippines wasn't worth the cost of defending it from Japan, and started to lay the groundwork for getting out.
Actually the British occupied Manila in between 1762 and 1764. But they failed to extend their control beyond...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_occupation_of_Manila
It wasn't even mentioned in our history books (the ones that I had since elementary years). If I were not interested reading with Philippine history, I would have not stumbled upon this issue :-)
M Nakadai America the only empire in history to establish a democratic system in an acquired territory and then give back spoils of war (The Philippines). The US didn't want it to begin with, in fact the US public at the time was weary of notions of empire exactly because of the headaches it brought to Europe.
@@johnomirth They did determine that with WPO that they wouldn't be able to effectively defend them, but the US didn't take steps to withdrawl from the islands until the invasion of Manchuria in '37. and by then it was too late.
Some of your words are wrong when i go to school just in grade l Philippines history one of my unforgettable lesson??????
As a filipino and a 1st hand knowledge of the Patron client relationship. I do not agree whith his explanation.
"There is the case of the Philippines. I have tried hard, and yet I cannot for the life of me comprehend how we got into that mess. Perhaps we could not have avoided it-perhaps
it was inevitable that we should come to be fighting the natives of those islands-but I cannot understand it, and have never been able to get at the bottom of the origin of our antagonism to the natives. I thought we should act as their protector-not try to get them under our heel. We were to relieve them from Spanish tyranny to enable them to set up a government of their own, and we were to stand by and see that it got a fair trial. It was not to be a government according to our ideas, but a government that represented the feeling of the majority of the Filipinos, a government according to Filipino ideas. That would have been a worthy mission for the United States. But now-why, we have got into a mess, a quagmire from which each fresh step renders the difficulty of extrication immensely greater. I’m sure I wish I could see what we were getting out of it, and all it means to us as a nation.” (Mark Twain, Mark Twain: The Complete Interviews, pp. 389-390)
Hahaha! Amen! Amen! Mabuhay ka Sharpshooter! I was having a hard time listening to what was being said this video and taking it in context of the un-edited raw version of reality'... This concept of yours is so accurate and so hard-hitting that everything else 'this guy says, now actually makes sense to me... "Brainwashing": The "Phenomenon of Reconciliation so eloquently explained in so short a sentence
As a true-blue Filipino, there are a lot of stories I would otherwise have never known if not for an american historian perspective talking about how we were tossed around by invaders whose intent to trade could have been achieved without subjugating and killing any of my countrymen. ...anways, back to this video. I just paused to comment about familiar names of Filipino streets like Taft (300pounds), dad of Douglas, Otis, McKinley, Roosevelt and many more.
Ironically enough, 250,000 Filipinos served with US forces against the Japanese in WW2.
About 32:00 -- Limited responsibilities to patrons.... Another film ("Patton" -- and great actor, George C. Scott) quotation: "You don't win wars by dying for your country. You win wars by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country."
12:35
what's he apologizing for? he's simply stating a fact. LOL Spain was obviously in decline in 1898.
We were first invaded by UK & occupied us for only 2 yrs. ...., then came Spain & Portuguese & took over Philippines for 333 yrs occupation, after that then came the US, started the WW1 & invaded Philippines for 50 yrs. ! Japan wants also to invade the Philippines but they didn‘t succeed.....! You couldn’t find Philippines in a Map, that’s not true, Philippines was been wrote in the Bible but didn’t mention the name of Philippines but it was mention „Ophir“., the name of Philippines in Ancient times, The Bible show the direction clearly & was found out it was Philippines. Many Scholars Archeologists had made a researched & documented it. Try to search the Map came fr. Spain in 15th up to 18th centuries, try also to see the video of Solomon’s Gold in CZcams. It‘s not true that no countries were not interested....,!? Philippines are rich for Natural resources, come on, stop your imagination. Take a look at US museum, you would find many of our Philippine Artifacts, Gold jewelries of our ancestors & many others, it was looted by US & not even told by us they have it, imagine our government didn’t knew about it , they looted the richness of Philippines . Spain & US used Philippines as their Trade businesses...., wants to reach out China for their products of Silk, Porzellan etc., & they made business Trade too in Mexico. Your research in Phil-US WW1 History was some of it are not true , he must really researched what were the real Facts during WW1 & not biased. The real facts about US , they are interested in Philippines bec. this Country is the center of the World, they wants to used Philippines as their war bases to other countries. Don’t mislead again the Filipinos. Mr. Tallado a Filipino Prince paid the amount of 20M dollar to Spain & not the US themselves. Try to talk to the Tallado families & will show you the evidences. Filipinos were not cowards at all, even McArthur himself said, Give me 10.000 Filipinos soldiers & I can conquered the World. Actually many Filipinos were been killed than the americans, what do you expect, americans had more weapons than the Filipinos, our ancestors were using some of the weapons of the Spaniards & the use of knife’s or swords. They brutally killed not only the Guerilla’s fighters , they also killed many women & children. The Filipinos don’t really had an armies in compare w/ the Americans soldiers, they were Guerilla’s, many were civilians who joined the Guerilla’s troops. The truth about WW1, US & Spain cannot w/ all their power to invade the entire Philippines, They both couldn‘t enter the Mindanao province at that time , they only occupied Luzon & Visayas. Anyway, When no countries are interested in Philippines at that time, why the hell they invading the Philippines if it’s not useful for them. Now, China is the next on line, they are now starting slowly invading our territories of the Philippines, so we have to be ready to fight those greedy China.
Cholera my ass! they poisoned the water, It was genocide! no strain of Cholera works that fast. Apparently The Nazi's didn't invent concentration camps. But in fairness to Americans , the reason we got along with them much better than the blue blooded Spanish , is because they simply were better people who would go out of their way to make you understand that though their skin was just as white as the Spanish,what mattered was the color that bled underneath
I want to make myself clear, nobody, no other country owns my country .
At least my generation woild know Douglas McArthur is not my country's savior.
Just so you know, i consider myself the rare few, the outliers, in terms of awareness in my country. Just an online declaration of sorts :)
I am still am upset that the US has never apologized for this war. You have the gull to tell American Congress back then that the filipino soldiers were the first one to fire the shots, when in reality, you were the one to make the first shot. How could you?
***** But, you should never perverse the truth to anyone's advantage. What is the truth, should be told.
To make things perfectly clear:
All the men responsible for this senseless war are dead. Their sons are dead. Do we, the great grandchildren, of the men and women who lived in the early 20th century bear blame for their mistakes; the mistakes of our four-fathers? Answer me this one simple question; when was the last time that you apologized for something your great grandfather did when he was 45 years old? Don't be a hypocrite.
Furthermore, the USA did "apologize" in 1946. It was called The Treaty of Manila. The US granted the Philippines their full and unconditional independence. Read up my friend.
Lastly in case you don't know, today the USA and the Philippines have very good diplomatic relations and citizens from both nations visit one another all year round.
TheNewRiflemanBob Let me make it clear that is not in any way a disrespect to the men who dies a century earlier. A simple apology coming from the US Govt't is suffice and admit what they did was wrong when they fired at the filipino soldier in 1899. Based on the books I have read by Agoncillo, it does not inducate that they apologize for making the filipino look like the bad guys.
***** Did you not read my first comment to you??? 2nd paragraph!! Jeez -_-
TheNewRiflemanBob You believe what you want to believe, but i will stick to history books written truthfully by Agoncillo.
"We claim to be a democratic people-a square-dealing people-but we have bought our
way into the Society of Sceptred Thieves by paying $20,000,000 to a country that didn’t own it for an island group [the Philippines] that we had no right to purchase. It was the stupendous joke of the century when the United States, after conquering Spain and acquiring the islands by right of conquest, gave Spain $20,000,000. What for? For the islands? Spain didn’t own them. Then what for? Why, just for this: An American goes abroad and sells his daughter to a title and buys his way into noble circles. Uncle Sam paid that $20,000,000 for his entrance fee into society-the Society of Sceptred Thieves. We are now on a par with the rest of them. We dare to turn what should be a benevolent
protectorate into an autocratic monarchy!” (Mark Twain, Mark Twain: The Complete Interviews, pp. 591-592)
Diego Malatesta there is legal good reason for America to make Spain signe a document with an amount of money as a compensation,but is long an complicated to explain it on here,do some searches on google about policies of legal treaties (are as old as the Greeks) just a bit updated by centuries.
@Ryan Lajara not i don´t get it at all,you should explaint yourself better about what point r you trying to make!.un saludo
@Ryan Lajara i understand what you r saying,but thear is a reason for everything in life,but it takes time to do reserches and studies! i dont have time to explaint it to you on here,but i see what you are saying!.i hope you find your unswers.
Philippines is a small country who just want to live with freedom and liberty.It doesnt matter if we dont have car , big house etc.We can survived by picking up vegies that grows around.
But , powerful country want to OWN us.(Illuminati behind) and killed millions?
Anyway, God alone our refuge and defence.God contine to SAVE us.amen
The illuminati isn't a thing.
```I Know coz my Grand Mother saying the Story Every Things , But Filipino Peoples are Strong what ever happened , We can Smile coz that only we can do that my grandmother sed ,,, stealing our natural resources and rape them so sad ,,, 1807 -1814 Colonies by American , 1832-1876 to long and again and again againnnnn , itsHard to trust , we don't care if they don't want us its ok ,we forgive you all , that my grand mother always say sed , Forgive and Forget and Move on but learn from the past ,,,
@galoon just wana remind again that what he meant by reconciliation is actually brainwash of the youth.
I think this lecture lacks a whole lot. Like how congress viewed the invasion. Armament wise USA big gap. :) And yes wide usage of propaganda, and education is I believe the biggest reason for what he calls reconciliation.
I sat through the first 6 minutes of over the top accolades and mindless ramblings about John Wayne and Bruce Willis; waiting for the, "professor," to make any kind of serious point by which time it was obvious that this video is clearly aimed at people with mental age of about 9 and then switched of disgust and went looking for something better and more serious and informative.
Perhaps it got better, but I'm inclined to doubt it that it really did.
You obviously don't have any idea how most (one time) lectures work. It's the standard to start with a introduction, which only partialy focuses on the topic. You may find that boring or bad, but judging the lecture on the introduction part, is like judging a book by its cover. Not even its title or author but literally its front picture.
That depends on how long the introduction goes on for, (even without how patronizing and condescending it was to his audience,) ; the contrast with other lectures, many of which I have watched or sat through, is not flattering and I'm currently reading Tocqueville's Democracy in America, (who doesn't really do any of that he gives a broad introduction gets directly to point and stays there and doesn't mention Bruce Willis even once. )
You might be surprised by just how often that works, (judging a book by it's cover, but that's why they have cover artists,) but really it's more like spending 20 minutes trying to get all the flashy packaging off something only to find it's a gherkin; a bit of a disappointment when you finally get there.
Well obviously.
why does hemp worry you? Oh yeah, because you don't believe in freedom and liberty, you believe in money and Giorgio Armani.
It look like the US faculties have their weak point in the knowledge of non-cinematographic history. In the other hand maybe they are composed of Pablo Escobar customers. Our country is fill with contradictions.
Dick Summers from Johnson sounds a bit made up
To make things perfectly clear:
The USA granted the Philippines their full and unconditional independence in 1946 with The Treaty of Manila. We owned up to our mistake and did the right thing. So for everyone who's pissed at the US, calm the F*ck down!
TheNewRiflemanBob aslong as the US has military bases in the Philippines, it is not independent.
TheNewRiflemanBob they did that to remove the special privilege of dual citizenship for Filipinos. Americans did not want immigration of Filipinos into their country. So even in granting "independence" (which really did not come until the 1990s when Americans finally left their last military base) it was based on racism.
TheNewRiflemanBob "mistake"? Unfuckingbelievable
American military bases are RENTED and they provide an economic boon for the Filipinos.
Phil-am war is the prelude of vietnam war
ildefonso Salcedo Cruz
The Philippines was the first Vietnam!
My grandmother was 10 years old during The Filipino-American War.
The horror stories she narrated to me of the American soldiers' atrocities blew my mind as a kid!
Not really a viable comparison.
Why you are using the name 'Manfred Richthofen'? Should be Manfred von Richthofen.
Manfred Richthofen So you are saying worst than the Mexicans and Japanese who also took control of the Philippines?
Whatever the faults of American rule, apparently the Japanese were dramatically worse.
Angel Cat He/she is right though. But I agree.
usa will pay for all war crimes
American your shit when it comes to man to man combat.your great in massacre civilian when your are defeated or ambush.dagko mong tao nga dagko pug tae e alangan nuh!!!!
Dr. Silbey didn't know the exact history of Philippines during US-Philippine war. I don't know where he get this story..., research more, he's mis-informed. Watch the video..czcams.com/video/dLWFF9ycmQs/video.html&t. In 1889 American troops land in the Philippine Islands to help the local rebels to overthrow their Spanish colonial oppressors. However once they gained victory the Americans assume control of the nation and turn on their allies, denying them even a say in the future of their own nation. Then they turn on the people and start killing and killing and killing. No one knows precisely how many people they murdered but it is in excess of one million men women and children. They burn, loot, rape and murder every native inhabitant they can find and eclipse the Spanish in terms of brutality and war crimes. Gen. Jacob H. Smith, commanded to kill all Filipinos even Women & children & he said if his armies did it, he will be pleased., So Col. Duncan assaulted, Tortured & killed many innocent Filipino people. William James- 1842-1910, he said..., God damn the US for its vile conduct in the Phil. Isles.
This is a highly selective telling of the narrative of the Philippine-War.
The greatest legacy of America to the Filipinos is the Elementary Education and the English language. Good American teachers teach their students... America is the land of opportunity. Abe Lincoln. Democracy. Equality. Good American Values. So much so that many filipinos want to migrate to America.
However, upon reaching America. Filiipinos were very much disappointed. Their American Teachers were lying that American Values, and American society is the best in the world. Equality. Human rights.... American teachers in the Philippines never taught that there was "DISCRIMINATION" against colored races. Filipinos cannot marry a White women. White woman is only for white men. Not for Filipinos. "America is in the heart-carlos bulosan" is a good book about American society before WW2.
Some scholars argue that even the education system and health care were not implemented to the benefit of Filipinos.
PHILIPPINES GET YOUR HEAD OUT OF AMERICAN ARSES...FUCK AMERICA AND THEIR OLD WESTERN TRICKS, THE CUNTS...VIVA PHILIPPINES
TERRIBLE! So bad.
Nobody wanted the Philippine... Oh please what an amount of BS. Just said clearly USA wanted an empire and they went for a weak colonial power they knew they could take on easy. See, there fast and furious, and the truth... a real winner nowadays
Atrocities by both sides?? Can you cite proof and make a comparison of this so-called atrocities made by us against those who promised us Freedom? Im offended by toning down of the genocide comiited by americans thru so-called reconciliation. We may be friends now, but we wont forget..
And.it is rather weird that im commenting these things at the age of your racist dumbfuck of a President, Fox new, and Alex jones bullshit conspiracy shits..... Lets just say I am Stephen Colbert fan...for good perspective of my awareness :)
I think he is talking about the retaliation tactics against Filipinos who aided the Americans by members of the guerrilla army.
TANG INA NYONG LAHAT > > >!!!!! MAMATAY NA KAYO (TRANSLATE THAT hOMIE!!!!)
You sir is a big biatch revisionist.. Cables were already declassified, stop lying sir.. History was already written.. You won the war, of course! the great and mighty anglo-saxons always wins.. You won an unnecessary war..
this guy is full of shit,,,,,arrogant sob
AMERICA MUST APOLOGIZE FIRST , KILLING HUNDRED THOUSANDS OF FILIPINOS INCLUDED CHILDRENS FOR GREED .