When the United States and Spain went to war over Cuba, the Philippines joined the side of the U.S. On June 12, 1898, Aguinaldo declared the independence of the Philippine islands, and in January ...

PHILIPPINE GOVERNMENT. BY MALCOLM AND KALAW. New York: Heath, 1923. THE CORNER-STONE OF PHILIPPINE INDEPENDENCE. BY F. B. HARRISON. New York: Century, 1922. THE ...

69% off bamboo-blend sheet set In the Philippines — where Spanish and later U.S. colonial rule persisted for nearly four centuries — June 12 is the real Independence Day. That date in 1898 was ...

Quezon had become President of the Philippine Senate and de facto leader of the Philippine independence movement. The friendship between the Quezon and MacArthur deepened in Manila in the late ...