The Philippine-American War is an armed military conflict between the United States of America and the nascent First Philippine Republic, fought between 1899 to at least 1902, which arises from a Filipino political struggle against U.S. occupation of the Philippines.

(This conflict is also known as the Philippine Insurrection and is historically the most common name used in the United States.

However, Filipinos and some American historians refer to these hostilities as the Philippine-American War, and, in 1999, the U.S. Library of Congress reclassified its references to use this term.

)The conflict officially ends on July 4, 1902.

This is the end of the war as far as the United States and the Filipino elite are concerned.

However, to the Filipino masses, who see the war against the Americans as a continuing struggle for independence, the resistance lasts longer.

Remnants of the Philippine Army and other resistance groups are to continue hostilities against American rule until 1913, and some historians consider these unofficial extensions as part of the war.