Hostilities break out on the night of …
Years: 1888 - 1899
Hostilities break out on the night of February 4, 1899, after two American privates on patrol kill three Filipino soldiers in a suburb of Manila.
Thus begins a war that will last for more than two years.
Some one hundred and twenty-six thousand American soldiers will be committed to the conflict; four thousand two hundred and thirty-four American and sixteen thousand Filipino soldiers, part of a nationwide guerrilla movement of indeterminate numbers, will die.
Locations
People
Groups
- Cuba (Spanish Colony)
- New Spain, Viceroyalty of
- Philippines, Spanish colony of the
- Spain, Bourbon Kingdom of
- United States of America (US, USA) (Washington DC)
- Filipinos
- Philippines, American colony of the
- Cuba, United States Military Government in
Topics
- Colonization of Asia, Spanish
- Philippine Revolution
- Philippine Insurrection of 1896-98
- Spanish-American War
