Philippine-American War, what do u know?

Question

It sure wasn't fought to perserve democracy

Answer 1

it was in the late 1890's no one cared about democracy back then. it was fought because the US bought the philippines from the spanish, but the philippines wanted their independence.

Answer 2

The Philippine-American War was an out growth of the Spanish-American War. Spain controlled the Philippines(the name of the country comes from King Phillip of Spain) and the USA promised the Filipino's independence for their aid in beating Spain. After the war was over the USA discovered that the people weren't ready for independence and the "Little brown brothers" needed to be controlled and guided. One the big points was a fear the independent Philippines would continue the Spaniards rule of keeping protestant missionaries out. The US even sent the missionaries in with US troops. Naturally the people felt cheated and lied to and rebelled. Particularly ferocious were the Moro tribesmen. They actually dictated the creation of a US military icon. The US had decided to adopt a double action swing out cylinder revolver to replace the .45 cal SAA Colt. Colt and S&W each offered a nearly identical model, both in .38 cal. European armies had begun adopting smaller caliber ammo and so did the US. The troops sent the Phillipines were issued the new models. The Maro would attack the bivouacked troops while the were in line for chow. They would not be carrying their rifles but only sidearms. They found that a charging Moro warrior could absorb all six rounds in a revolver and still kill the trooper firing and possibly a few of his buddies. This was demorilising in an almost dictionary sense of the word.The War Dept.(remember those halcyon days when things were named for what they did and political correctness hadn't been dreamed up) hastily sent out the stored .45 SAA Colts. Some Colt Trooper Models,double action, swing out revolvers were converted from .38 to .45 long Colt. What has this to do with an icon? When the Ordinance Dept. decided that they needed a semi-auto service arm many 9mm (including the Luger P-08) .38,.380 and other assorted arms were offered for consideration but remembering the Moro experience they insisted on the .45. John Moses Browning, then working for Colt, designed the .45 ACP cartridge and the weapon to use it the very familar and still viable firearm the original 1911 Colt. Battlefield experience led to modifications and the Colt1911A1

Answer 3

In December 1898 America without consulting any Filipinos, bought the Philippines and other Territories from Spain, at the Treaty of Paris for $20 million (usd) after America had defeated Spain in the Spanish/American War. The American Government made plans to make the Philippines an American Colony. The Filipinos fighting for their independence from Spain, had already declared their independence on June 12th 1898. On August 14th 1898, 11,000 American Ground Troops were sent to occupy the Philippines. As you can imagine the Filipinos were not very happy about it. Read on to find out what occurred. At Wikipedia the Free Encyclopedia, on Yahoo. hope this is helpful.

Answer 4

The Philippine-American War was a blundering mistake. America suddenly acquired this polyglot mixture of islands that had been under harsh Spanish rule for Centuries and had no clue what to do. They assumed that the Philippine Rebels were 'dolts,' totally dismissing their intelligence, utterly rejecting their legitimacy to rule the islands, and thus decided to rule The Islands according to their precepts & prejudices. Despite those harsh words, it should be said that when WIlliam Howard Taft was sent to Govern he did try to set right many wrongs and in the long haul the Phillipines befittted more from American Imperialism than it had from Spanish Imperiallism. I do accept the argument that if Amercia had ignored the Philipines in 1898-99, then the Filipino rebels would have eventually driven out The Spanish. A few forward thinking Japanese pleaded with the Emperor argued to intercede on behalf of the rebels which certainly gives one the desire to leap aboard a time machine. Peace.

Answer 5

US defeated spain in spanish american war, promised philippines to drive out spanish then occupied them for 50 years. 50,000 philipinos were killed and thousands were sent to guam prison. At the end of WW2 there was nothing left to steal so we dropped them and gave almost no support to rebuild

Answer 6

i know it happend, can anyone truthfully say with 100% certainty
that it was not fought to preserve democracy?