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Article: The Philippine War, 1899-1902.(Review)
- Article from:
- Parameters
- Article date:
- September 22, 2000
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The Philippine War, 1899-1902. By Brian McAllister Linn. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2000.427 pages. $39.95. Reviewed by Dr. Stanley L. FaIk (Colonel, AUS Ret.), former Chief Historian of the Air Force and author of Bataan: The March of Death and other works.
Under the terms of the December 1898 treaty ending the Spanish-American War, the United States gained possession of the Philippine Islands, a distant archipelago whose inhabitants had for years been struggling to gain independence from Spain and who were now equally determined to prevent American rule of the islands. The United States thus inherited an ongoing insurgency which it would be ...