TODAY in HISTORY

6 AUGUST

2012-08-06T02:30:00.000-07:00

1907 - Gen. Macario Sakay, one of the Filipino military leaders who had continued fighting the imperialist United States invaders eight years into the Philippine-American War (1899-1914), is meted out the death sentence; essentially based on the ideals and principles of the underground-society-turned-revolutionary-government Kataastaasang, Kagalanggalangang Katipunan nang manga Anak nang Bayan (KKK) during the Philippine Revolution against Spain, Sakay had established the Republika ng Katagalugan (entire Philippines) with a popularly backed guerrilla operations in Morong, Laguna, Cavite and Quezon in patriotic defiance of the colonial American government, was deceived by colonial Gov.-Gen. Henry Clay Ide who made it appear that Sakay's his surrender was necessary to give way to the election of an all-Filipino Philippine Assembly legislature, falsely promising him and his supporters amnesty; upon his deceptive abduction by the imperialist Bald Eagle authorities, Sakay could only exclaim to Dominador Gomez, the Filipino collaborator who helped in his trickery: "“Tell the Americans to face us in the open field, in honorable battle.”

1898 - Generals Artemio Ricarte and Pio del Pilar express their misgivings to President Emilio Aguinaldo y Famy as to the real nature of American policy towards the Philippines; this as Aguinaldo issues a proclamation to the United States and all foreign governments explaining the nature and scope of the Revolutionary Government and the proclamation of country's independence by provincial representatives, begging for the protection of all nations of the civilized world and beseeching their formal recognition of the state of belligerence and the independence of the Philippines;” by February 4 the following year, the imperialist-in-the-making Bald Eagle nation will instigate the bloody and protracted Filipino-American War (1899-1914) and will eventually successfully invade and occupy the Southeast Asian nation until 1946 when it will "grant" the Philippines independence (but not before ensuring its neocolonial status through through agreements and treaties aimed at manipulating and controlling Filipinos' political and economic lives.

5 AUGUST

2012-08-05T02:30:00.000-07:00

President Manuel Roxas, who campaigned for Parity Rights,
w/ American Clark Air Base Officials

1946 - The Congress of the Philippines ratifies the Treaty of General Relations entered into by and between the Republic of the Philippines and its former colonizer, the United States, on July 4, 1946; the Treaty with the Bald Eagle nation is crafted in such a way that it makes room for arrangements that allow continued imperialist American military, political and economic hold on the Southeast Asian archipelago, as to be expressed in the 1947 Parity Amendment in the 1935 Constitution giving US citizens equal rights with the Filipinos in the exploitation of Philippine natural resources, and the 1947 Military Bases and Military Assistance pacts allowing U.S. access to 22 military, naval, and air bases in the Philippines (which were to be superseded by the Mutual Defense Assistance Agreement and the Mutual Defense Treaty) the General Relations treaty will become a subject of continued controversy and criticism, dubbed as a neocolonial arrangement by Filipino nationalists, including foremost nationalist of the period Claro M. Recto: the US will initially arrogate to itself the title over the base lands but following criticism by Recto who will state that American right over the base territories is only "just utendi" and that the subsequent Bases Agreement only a 'lease,' the US will later formally deliver the base lands' muniments of title to the Philippines through then US Vice-President Richard Nixon.

4 AUGUST

2012-08-04T02:30:00.000-07:00

Military flag of Spanish Empire from 16th to mid 18th century

1625 - Gov. Fernando de Silva, appointed successor to Gov. Alonso Fajardo de Tenza in colonial Philippines, notifies King Philip IV of Spain of his arrival in the islands and reports the condition of affairs, including: his recommendation for the restoration of the captive Ternatan king; his intent to very severely punish the rebellion in Cagayan; abandonment of the attempt at working the Igorrote gold mines; request for greater authority to restrain the lawless religious who ignores the civil authorities; and his hope to obtain the needed ships to defend their Philippine possession against the powerful Dutch fleet that has actually already reached Ternate.

1898 - Some nine days prior to the infamous Mock Battle of Manila that would falsely make it appear that the Americans, instead of the Filipino revolutionaries, defeated the Spanish colonial forces in the Southeast Asian archipelago and the capital, Manila, Consul Oscar F. Williams of the emerging imperialist United States cables American Secretary of State William R. Day to report that he has tried to convince Gen. Emilio Aguinaldo y Famy that American rule over the Philippines will supposedly bring greater honor, progress, and profit to the natives compared to any scheme the Filipino leader and his advisers can ever devise; Williams adds that he is on better terms with Aguinaldo than the United States military commanders are with Aguinaldo, the leader of the second phase of the Philippine Revolution who has stupidly forged an "alliance" with U.S. Admiral George Dewey and believed his and other American military and diplomatic officials' verbal deceptive promises that the Bald Eagle nation will honor Philippine independence; apparently realizing that the imperialist Americans have him duped, Aguinaldo--who weeks earlier even ridiculously instructed his men to allow the G.I.'s to freely enter the archipelago--will then try to 'negotiate' Filipinos' independence; the Mock Battle of Manila will form the prelude to the baseless December 1898 Treaty of Paris where by that time, the virtually expelled Spaniards will supposedly "cede" the Philippines to imperialist America, ultimately leading to the bloody and protracted Filipino-American War (1899-1914).

3 AUGUST

2012-08-03T02:30:00.000-07:00

1900 - One and one-half years into the protracted and bloody period of American invasion (Filipino-American War, 1899-1914), the President of the Philippine Republic-on-the-run Emilio Aguinaldo issues a manifesto wherein he appeals to the Filipinos not to listen to native collaborators but, rather, to continue fighting without end in defence of their rights until victory against the imperialist enemy is achieved and independence won and recognized.

1901 - exactly a year later, following the capture of several officials and their subsequent swearing of fealty to the imperialist Bald Eagle nation, including Aguinaldo, Gen. Ambrosio Mojica, Gen. Vicente Lukban of the Samar-Leyte command issues a proclamation, part of which says:

"Nothing, in truth, is more natural than that we should continue the struggle, whatever be the obstacles placed in our way and despite the capture of him who was our generals;… We should let the world know that the Philippine army is captured, another at once comes forward and succeeds him; that we fight, not at the suggestion of others, but because of our own personal convictions; and that, finally, we are worthy of independence and of universal respect, because we know our rights and how to die in their defense…"

1898 - In a speech at Kawit in Cavite province, Emilio F. Aguinaldo, President of the fledgling Philippine Republic, pleads with local officials to keep unity, peace, and upright conduct; the appeal comes amidst apprehensions expressed by Felipe Agoncillo and Apolinario Mabini, Aguinaldo's diplomatic official and key adviser, respectively, over the former's supposed "alliance " with the Americans, with some Filipino soldiers already thinking at that point they they might need to fight a war with the pale-skinned US forces.

Photo credit: http://philippineamericanwar.webs.com/thelastholdouts.htm

2 AUGUST

2012-08-02T02:30:00.000-07:00

Hen. Isidoro Torres y Dayao

1900 - Gen. Isidoro Torres y Dayao, the politico-military chief of Bulacan province, receives from Gen. Emilio Aguinaldo y Famy, President of the Philippine Republic-on-the-run during the Filipino-American War (1899-1914), a letter instructing him to adopt effective counter-measures against the imperialist American soldiers who make alluring offers to tempt the native soldiers to abandon the fight for the sovereignty of their motherland; during the inauguration of the Philippine Republic on January 23, 1899, Torres led a 6,000-strong army that marched during the historic parade, which occurred just under two weeks before the United States began its invasion of the Southeast Asian archipelago; earlier in the summer of 1897 during the second phase of the Philippine Revolution, with the US rather concurrently fighting a war against Spain, American Admiral George Dewey forged an "alliance" with Aguinaldo; such 'alliance,' however, would turn out to be a sinister deceptive ploy of the Bald Eagle nation that would soon renege on its military leaders' promises of honoring Philippine Independence, and even staging the infamous Mock Battle of Manila that would falsely make it appear that the Americans, instead of the Filipino revolutionaries, defeated the Spanish colonial forces in the archipelago and the capital, Manila, as prelude to the baseless December 1898 Treaty of Paris where by that time, the virtually expelled Spaniards will supposedly "cede" the Philippines to imperialist America.

Photo credit: http://philippineamericanwar.webs.com/collapse1901.htm

1 AUGUST

2012-08-01T02:30:00.000-07:00

Pangulong Manuel L. Quezon (1878-1944)

1898 - The Act proclaiming Philippine Independence is declared in Bacoor, Cavite during the first convention of town/municipal presidents that included representatives from Tanguay, Nueva Ecija, Laguna, Morong, Pampanga, Manila, Tarlac, Bulacan, Batangas, Bataan, Infanta, Union, Pangasinan, Zambales, Tayabas, and Mindoro; ironically, as the act declares that the Philippine Revolution against Spain is a rational and legitimate action of the Filipino people who are valiantly defending their national pride and dignity, and asks all foreign governments to recognize the Filipino nation and its sovereignty, during the very same day, the troops of the imperialist United States earlier freely allowed to enter the country (by a gullible Gen. Emilio F. Aguinaldo) are organized into a division commanded by Gen. Thomas Anderson a that, in about six months' time, will take part in the undemocratic American invasion of the Philippines and commence the bloody and protracted Philippine-American War (1899-1914); beginning some three months earlier during the start of the so-called second phase of the Philippine Revolution that intersected with the Spanish-American War , a succession of military and diplomatic Bald Eagle officials including Anderson himself and Admiral George Dewey conned Aguinaldo in forging an alliance against Spain on the vilely false promise that the U.S. will honor Philippine Independence.

1944 - Manuel Luis Quezon, first President of the Commonwealth of the Philippines under the colonial occupation of the imperialist United States, dies from tuberculosis at Saranac Lake, New York during World War II while the Southeast Asian country was under Japanese Occupation.

31 JULY

2012-07-31T02:30:00.000-07:00

Colonial body Philippine Assembly, imperialist US Occupation

1907 - As the bloody and protracted Philippine-American War (1899-1914) persists in certain parts of the Southeast Asian archipelago, elections are held for the Philippine Assembly, the colonial legislative body set up during the imperialist United States Occupation, with Sergio S. Osmena's (pro-immediate independence) Nacionalista Party capturing majority of the 80 seats representing 80 districts; only less than 1.5% of the Filipinos were able to vote their representatives to the Assembly, which was effectively the lower house to the appointive, all or mainly American-in-composition Philippine Commission, because of the severe qualification requirements (real estate ownership worth at least P500; able to read and write; and could speak in Spanish or English); the imperialist Americans began invading the Southeast Asian archipelago at the turn of the century after conning Filipino revolutionary leader Emilio Aguinaldo y Famy into cooperating with them to fight Spain during the so-called second phase of the Philippine Revolution that intersected with the Spanish-American War: more than two months after the Aguinaldo declared Independence "under the protection of the Powerful and Humanitarian Nation" [the Bald Eagle nation], the US vilely arranged the infamous August 1898 Mock Battle of Manila that made it appear that it was the Americans instead of the Filipinos that expelled the Spaniards, and in February of the following year, secretly instigated hostilities to spark the Fil-Am War (1899-1914), USA's first war of invasion where an estimated hundreds of thousands to 1.5 million Filipino freedom-fighters and civilians perished either from direct killing/torture or from famine, sickness, or from the asperity of reconcentration, scorched earth, and other horrific war tactics of the enemy Americans.

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30 JULY

2012-07-30T02:30:00.000-07:00

1934 - During the imperialist American Period, Claro M. Recto is elected president of the Constitutional Convention tasked with framing what would be called the 1935 Constitution of colonial Philippines; Recto, an outspoken Filipino nationalist and critic of the United States Military Bases, will die in Rome in 1960 due to a mysterious heart attack suspected to be a work of the Bald Eagle's Central Intelligence Agency based on an earlier CIA plan to assassinate him with a vial of poison, his having no known heart ailment, and the US agency's record of playing 'holed condom' electoral dirty tricks on the solon during his presidential bid in the 1957 presidential elections.

1896 - Filipino reformist, patriot and polymath Jose Mercado Rizal receives a letter from Gov.-Gen. Ramon Blanco permitting him to work as physician for the Spanish Army in Cuba,

1601 - Antonio de Morga, Spanish colonial judge for the Philippine Islands during the colonial rule of Spin writes King Philip II about his services in equipping and supplying and leading the naval battle with Dutch corsairs who have been preying on shipping that enter Manila harbor.

29 JULY

2012-07-29T02:30:00.000-07:00

1578 - Francesco de Sande, the third Spanish colonial governor of the Philippines, writes King Philip II a brief report about his March-May 1578 expedition from Manila to the southern island of Borneo in the bid to secure the submission of the natives to the Spanish crown; de Sande, who earlier established the southern Luzon city of Nueva Caceres, enabling the arrival of the first Franciscan priests in 1577 in the Southeast Asian archipelago, also requests the king for a reward and promotion for his victorious campaign against the early native Muslims as a result of which the Bornean sultan became submissive to Spain; earlier in 1521, Spain "discovered" [translation: first learned about] the islands of what they would later call the Southeast Asian archipelago following Spain's "discovery" [again, read: first learned about] what they will later name s the Philippine islands (Islas de San Lazaro) following the arrival of the ill-fated expedition of Ferdinand Magellan in 1521 who was killed by chieftain Lapu-Lapu and some 22 years later, the fourth Spanish colonial expedition, this time headed by Ruy Lopez de Villalobos, reached Baganga Bay, Davao Oriental in the island of Mindanao, Philippine archipelago; another expedition in 1559 marked the beginning of the Spanish colonization of the Philippines when King Philip II sent a mission to conquer said islands that would later be named after him; earlier, the Spanish monarchy was convinced that the Philippine islands formed part of the Spanish zone under the so-called Treaty of Tordesillas demarcation, leading to the full decision to colonize the islands and the native people.

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28 JULY

2012-07-28T02:30:00.000-07:00

Imperialist American Civil Gov.-Gen William Forbes (right, back row)

1909 - Ten years into the bloody and protracted Philippine-American War (1899-1914), the imperialist United States-installed colonial civil government of Gov.-Gen. Cameron Forbes recommends the reconstruction of Jose Protacio Rizal's house in Dapitan where the Filipino hero was exiled during the Spanish colonial era; Rizal would be an "American-sponsored" figure to be made as the Philippines' "national hero" by the Bald Eagle colonial government, chosen over the 'too radical' Andres Bonifacio y de Castro, Supremo of the underground-society-turned-revolutionary-government fighting the Spanish rule, the Kataastaasang, Kagalanggalangang Katipunan nang manga Anak nang Bayan (KKK), and the 'Sublime Paralytic' Apolinario Mabini y Maranan who will be considered by the imperialists as 'unregenerate;'

-- 54 years earlier, on July 28, 1855, Juan B. Marcaido is granted a gold medal for his efforts and studies on the method of banana fiber extraction by the Economics Society of Friends of the Country; on July 28, 1963, 24 Philippine Boy Scouts and Scouter delegates to the 11th Boys Scout World Jamboree in Marathon, Greece, perish in a airplane crash in the Arabian Sea.

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27 JULY

2012-07-27T02:30:00.000-07:00

1645 - Native Muslims attack the Spanish garrison with help from a Dutch squadron that arrives at Jolo from Batavia (North Jakarta) during Spain's colonial rule of the Philippines; the Filipino-Spanish troops under Commander Esteban Ugalde will resist and finally force the withdrawal of the squadron after three days of combat in what would be one of the few unsuccessful attempts of the Dutch to expel the Spaniards from the Philippine islands; the contexts are Spain's tenuous hold on Mindanao and the so-called 80 Years War of Netherlands' revolt and, subsequently, assertion of its independence; Spain's colonization of the Southeast Asian islands began in the mid 1500s when King Philip II sent sent an expedition to conquer said archipelago in 1559 following earlier exploration missions including that led by Ferdinand Magellan who was killed by the native chieftain Lapu-Lapu and his forces in the island of Mactan.

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26 JULY

2012-07-26T02:30:00.000-07:00

Japanese occupies the US colony, the Philippines

1941 - Lt. Gen. Douglas MacArthur, military adviser to the colonial government of the imperialist United States in the Philippine Islands, dubbed the "Philippine Commonwealth," is placed in active service as commander of the newly created USAFFE (United States Armed Forces in the Far East) during World War II; some 100,000 Filipino soldiers whom MacArthur has trained in modern warfare will be inducted under his command; however, in five months' time, Bataan province, where MacArthur will run to his retreat, will fall during the Japanese's so-called December 1941-May 1942 Philippine Campaign, part of the early developments during the Pacific theatre of the Second World War, with Japan to be able to occupy the North American colony, the Philippines, until 1945; Japan will surrender to the Bald Eagle nation after its two cities Hiroshima and Nagasaki are horrifically attacked by the US with the world's first-ever atomic bombs.

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25 JULY

2012-07-25T02:30:00.000-07:00

Hen. Santiago V. Alvarez

1872 - Santiago Alvarez y Virata, who would become one of the most valiant generals of the Philippine Revolution against Spain, is born in Imus, Cavite to Gen. Mariano Alvarez and Nocilasa Virata; he will become captain general and later, commander-in-chief, of the Magdiwang chapter of the Kataastaasang, Kagalanggalangang Katipunan nang manga Anak nang Bayan (KKK) in Cavite; Alvarez will valiantly fight the Spaniards from the outbreak of the revolution in 1896 until 1897, and will be dubbed the Hero of the Battle of Dalahican when he will engage the Spanish troops under Gen. Ramon Blanco in the bloody 36-hour battle, successfully repulsing the enemy forces; Alvarez will heroically display excellent fighting skills with his father, Mariano Alvarez, and cousin, General Pascual Alvarez--both co-Magdiwang KKK leaders--liberating Noveleta from the Spaniards on August 31, 1896 and bravely winning various battles within Noveleta, specifically in the towns of Naic, Maragondon, Magallanes, Tanza, Alfonso, Silang, Imus, and Francisco de Malabon; however, during the United States invasion of the Philippines, Alvarez will become an American 'collaborator' of sorts owing to their refusal to join the revolutionary government of Gen. Emilio F. Aguinaldo who seized revolutionary leadership and ordered the execution-cum-assassination of Katipunan Supreme President Andres Bonifacio y de Castro; Alvarez would be appointed by William Howard Taft as presiding officer of the imperialist civil government body, the so-called Great Council of Peace Commision in 1902, three years into the protracted and very bloody Philippine-American War (1899-1914); Alvarez will author the book "The katipunan and the revolution: memoirs of a general," an invaluable source of information on the Philippine Revolution, the rift between the Magdiwang and Magdalo chapter, and the heroism and killing of Bonifacio under the hands of Aguinaldo's Magdalo faction.

24 JULY

2012-07-24T02:30:00.000-07:00

Filipinos captured by American invaders

1898 - After having been led to believe through verbal promises by United States officials [the consuls in Singapore and Hong Kong, Admiral George Dewey and Gen. Thomas Anderson] that America is an ally, President Emilio F. Aguinaldo writes to Gen. Anderson of his people's expectations that while foreign powers have not yet acknowledged the Philippine Republic, "the great North American nation, which struggled first for its independence, and afterward for the abolition of slavery and is now actually struggling for the independence of Cuba, would look upon [Filipino assertion of sovereignty] with greater benevolence than any other nation"; some three months back during the second phase of the Philippine Revolution against Spain, intersecting with the Spanish-American War, the Bald Eagle nation, through Admiral Dewey, forged an alliance with the Filipinos, deceptively promising Aguinaldo that the U.S. will honor the independence of the Southeast Asian archipelago; exactly a year later, on July 24, 1899, almost six months into the bloody and protracted Philippine-American War (1899-1914), Foreign Minister Apolinario Mabini y Maranan will optimistically write about how "favorable public opinion (on Philippine independence) in America is steadily gaining ground to the detriment of the imperialist party."

Photo credit: Filipiniana.net

23 JULY

2012-07-23T02:30:00.000-07:00

1864 - Apolinario Mabini y Maranan, the future "Brains of the Philippine Revolution", key adviser, and Foreign Minister of what would be the short-lived Philippine Republic under Gen. Emilio Aguinaldo, is born in Talaga, Tanauan, Batangas to Dionisia Maranan and Inocencio Mabini during the Spanish colonial rule; acquiring paralysis later in adulthood, Mabini will be summoned to become an adviser of Aguinaldo who, by that time, had already seized revolutionary leadership from Generalissimo Andres Bonifacio y de Castro during the time of the Philippine Revolution against Spain; Mabini will be one of the few officials of the fledgling Philippine Republic that will for some time resist the pressure of swearing fealty to the imperialist United States of America during the Filipino-American War (1899-1914) ; it will be the second phase of the Philippine Revolution that Mabini will become a key Filipino figure--his counterpart during the initial phase of the Himagsikan led by Bonifacio, co-founder and Supremo of the Kataastaasang Kagalanggalangang Katipunan nang manga Anak nang Bayan, will be Emilio Jacinto y Dizon, who will earn the title "Brains of the Katipunan; a few years before his death, Mabini will author his memoirs of the Philippine Revolution, including his account of Aguinaldo's "insubordination" to, and the tragic "crime" and "assassination" committed against Bonifacio.

1567 - Miguel Lopez de Legaspi, the Spanish conquistador who forged a blood compact with the Filipino natives and deceived them into thinking that his people were friends, subsequently facilitating Spain's colonization of the Southeast Asian islands, reports to King Philip II about how Chinese and Japanese come yearly to some islands in the archipelago, such as Luzon and Mindoro, to trade silk, wool bells, iron, tin, porcelains, perfumes, colored cotton cloths and other small wares in exchange for gold and wax.

Raw image credit: National Historical Institute

22 JULY

2012-07-22T02:30:00.000-07:00

Filipino soldiers resisting imperialist United States invasion

1899 - One and one-half years into the Philippine-American War (1899-1914) and 25 months after Gen. Emilio Aguinaldo y Famy declared Philippine Independence from colonial Spain, gullibly invoking "the protection of the Powerful and Humanitarian Nation ," that was supposedly the United States of America, Aguinaldo will create an Intelligence Office in Manila to collect all available data about the invading enemy US forces for the information use of the Philippine Army and Philippine committees abroad; exactly a year later, on July 22, 1900, Aguinaldo will issue a proclamation declaring all Filipinos who attend the "peace" [translation: accept Bald Eagle rule or else...] festivals organized by the imperialist Americans are traitors to motherland; earlier, Aguinaldo, who became the head of the so-called second phase of the Philippine Revolution against Spain after wresting the leadership from, and thereafter eliminating, Supremo Andres Bonifacio y de Castro, stupidly entered into an "alliance" with the Americans in fighting the Spaniards in mid-1897 after believing various US military and diplomatic officials who deceptively promised him that their country will honor Philippine Independence.

21 JULY

2012-07-21T02:30:00.000-07:00

1898 - Felipe Agoncillo y Encarnacion, future Minister Plenipotentiary of the fledgling Philippine Republic, writes Apolinario Mabini y Maranan, key adviser of President Emilio Aguinaldo y Famy, expressing his apprehensions over the supposed "alliance" with the Americans in apparent reference to Aguinaldo's (unofficial and gullible) "alliance" arrangement with certain United States officials during the second phase of the Philippine Revolution; Aguinaldo's deal involved Filipinos' cooperation in the U.S. war against Spain and in return, America is supposed to honor the independence of the Filipino nation; as will later be revealed, Admiral George Dewey, Consul-General in Singapore E. Spencer Pratt; Consul General in Hong Kong Rounsevelle Wildman, and Gen. Thomas Anderson have deceived Aguinaldo, what with the the Bald Eagle nation later invading the Philippines come February 1899 (with the hostilities triggering the bloody and protracted Filipino-American War, 1899-1914), to be secretly instigated by the imperialist US generals upon instructions from their President William McKinley); Mabini will later write in his memoirs that "Mr. Aguinaldo had accepted [the verbal promises] because he ardently desired to return to the islands, fearful that other influential Filipinos should (rob him of glory and) reach an understanding with the Americans in the name of the people."

20 JULY

2012-07-20T02:30:00.000-07:00

William Rufus Day,
Imperialist Asst. State Secretary

1898 - Five weeks after the Filipinos declared Philippine independence during the Revolution against Spain, United States Assistant Secretary of State William Rufus Day writes a letter supposedly rebuking American Consul-General E. Spencer Pratt in Singapore for "undiplomatically" allowing Philippine President Emilio Aguinaldo y Famy to believe that the U.S. Government would recognize the independence of the Southeast Asian archipelago after Spain is defeated and on condition that the Filipinos help the US in the Spanish-American War; truth is, days or weeks earlier, a number of other American officials, including Gen. Thomas Anderson, Consul General in Hong Kong Rounsevelle Wildman, and particularly Admiral George Dewey took turns deceiving Aguinaldo into thinking the US will honor Filipino independence (only 16 days earlier, Gen. Anderson Day wrote Aguinaldo to ask him to cooperate with the United States in the war against Spain, categorically stating that Americans are sympathetic with the people of the Philippine Islands); the apparent deception would lead Aguinaldo to stupidly order the Filipino forces "not to interfere" and freely allow the American forces to position themselves for the eventual US invasion of the Philippines; by February of the following year, Bald Eagle President William McKinley will secretly instigate hostilities leading to the the bloody and protracted Filipino-American War (1989-1914).

19 JULY

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Bust of Gen. Simon de Anda on the wall of Santa Cruz Church

1770 - General Simon de Anda assumes the position of governor-general of the Spanish colony,t he Philippine Islands, replacing Governor Jose Raón; during his administration, he informs the King of Spain of complaints made against the abuses of the friars and officials against the natives; successfully opposes the King's November 9, 1774 decree secularizing curacies held by the regulars; repairs the walls of Manila; shortly embarks on the building of several war vessels; some eight years earlier, Anda was responsible for organizing a new Spanish base in Bacolor, Pampanga during the period of British occupation of Manila; over 200 years earlier, the Spaniards began to colonize the Southeast Asian archipelago following several expeditions sent by the monarch, including the exploration led by Ferdinand Magellan in the 1520s.

18 JULY

2012-07-18T02:30:00.000-07:00

1898 - Beleaguered colonial Spanish troops led by Lieutenant Commander Juan Lalat surrender to the Filipino revolutionary forces under Commander Vicente Quesada in Aringay, La Union more than a month after Gen. Emilio F. Aguinaldo declared the Independence of the Philippines ("under the protection of the powerful and Humanitarian Nation,"--unknown to Aguinaldo, the emerging imperialist superpower of the 20th century); the Spaniards have been entrenched in the convent of this town following a sustained combat between the opposing forces but as the Filipinos prevailed, they were forced to capitulate to Quesada, the province's revolutionary governor who treats them with all humanitarian considerations; some three months earlier during the second phase of the Philippine Revolution against Spain, Aguinaldo forged an alliance with Admiral George Dewey of the United States that has been rather concurrently fighting a war against Spain; the "alliance," however, would turn out to be a sinister deceptive ploy of the Bald Eagle nation that would soon renege on its military and diplomatic leaders' promises of honoring Philippine Independence, and even staging the infamous Mock Battle of Manila that would falsely make it appear that the Americans, instead of the Filipino revolutionaries, defeated the Spanish colonial forces in the Southeast Asian archipelago and the capital, Manila, as prelude to the baseless December 1898 Treaty of Paris where by that time, the virtually expelled Spaniards will supposedly "cede" the Philippines to imperialist America; the freedom-fighting Filipinos would then stage a bloody and protracted, though unsuccessful, struggle to assert their independence and fight the vile invading U.S. forces during the Philippine-American War (1899-1914).

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17 JULY

2012-07-17T02:30:00.000-07:00

1755 - Pedro Manuel de Arandia y Santestaban, governor and captain-general of colonial Philippines for the Spanish crown, reports that all non-Christian Chinese have been expelled, to be readmitted in the future only on account of trading purposes; 76 years earlier, Spanish governor for the Southeast Asian colony Juan de Vargas, issued a royal cedula compelling all local unmarried Chinese, in the Philippines, whether they were Catholic Christians or unbaptized, to live at the Parian while the married ones were to remain in Binondo, Manila; the commercial vacuum left by the expelled non-Christianized Chinese would be momentarily filled in by British traders, with the said trading interest serving to contribute to England's future colonization plans on Manila; Spanish colonization of the Philippine archipelago began in the mid-16th century when King Philip II sent sent an expedition to conquer said islands in 1559 following the earlier exploration missions including the important one led by explorer Ferdinand Magellan who was killed by the forces of native chieftain Lapu-Lapu of the island of Mactan.

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16 JULY

2012-07-16T02:30:00.000-07:00

1844 - Narciso Claveria y Zaldua becomes governor-general of the Philippines during the Spanish colonial rule; his administration will be responsible for correcting the Philippine calendar; establishing the Sociedad de Recreo (Recreation Association); the founding of papers such as Diario de Manila and La Esperanza; constructing a military library; the purchase of the first steam war-vessel for the Southeast Asian colony; and issuing a decree obligating the natives to adopt Spanish surnames from a catalogue (Catalogo de Apellidos) for the purpose of easier taxation and identification, exempting only pre-Spanish royalty and Chinese with pre-existing surnames; Claveria would also be responsible for granting Jose Oranguyen, Spanish lawyer-turned-businessman-then-(Tondo)judge-and-explorer, the permit to colonize Davao--a 'mini-conquista'--eventually leading to the area being constituted as a province (Nueva Guipizcoa) with Nueva Bergara (future Davao City) as capital; the 62nd Spanish colonial governor in the Philippines would also be responsible for the conquest of the Sulu island of Balanguingui some four years into his term, overcoming the Moros for which he would be accorded the titles viscount of claveria and count of Mnaila along with the cross of San Fernando.

15 JULY

2012-07-15T02:30:00.000-07:00

Rey Felipe II de Espana
(King Philip II of Spain)

1589 - A royal fiscal in colonial Philippines, Gaspar de Ayala, writes Spain King Felipe II a detailed report on matters concerning colonial administration in the Southeast Asian archipelago during the early decades of Spanish settlements; as well, de Ayala advises the king to construct ships and fragata, which should be more profitable than galleys; the report of de Ayala also includes the inadequate Chinese trade; the encomiendas of Dona Maria de Miranda; the conspiracy against Spaniards; the rebellion in Cagayan; sequestration of illegal Japanese ship; the conflict between the royal officials and the bishop; the conflict between the Dominicans and Augustinians; the need for more religious instructions; the lack of funds in the city hospital; the need for more soldiers, funds, and ammunitions to secure the Southeast Asian colony; a scandalous incident involving a bishop and a preacher in a cathedral; and the fierce storm that hit Manila; Spain will hold the Philippine archipelago, originally named as Archipelago of St. Lazarus by the explorer Magellan (who was slain by early freedom fighter, the native chieftain Lapu-Lapu), as a colony for more than three hundred years.

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Maj. Gen. Elwell Otis of the imperialistic U.S.
"fighting, having begun, must go on to the grim end"

1898 - President Emilio Aguinaldo y Famy of the still-in-revolution Philippine Republic writes to gullibly ask George Dewey, admiral of the emerging imperialist United States, to forward to Washington his June 18 and 23 decrees establishing a revolutionary dictatorial government to continue the fight for independence, further stating that "the desires on this government are to remain always in friendship with the great North American nation, to which we are under many obligations"; on this same day, the 4th U.S. Military Expedition to the Philippines sails for Manila under Maj. Gen. Elwell S. Otis, in what would later prove to be preparation for the imperialistic American invasion of the Philippines: Otis would oversee many of the American atrocities in the bloody and protracted Filipino-American War (1899-1914) that their forces would surreptitiously instigate come February of the following year, and would be quoted for saying "fighting, having begun, must go on to the grim end" in response to Aguinaldo's plea for an end to the war; around eight months earlier, Dewey forged an alliance with Aguinaldo, deceptively promising to honor Philippine independence, during the (second phase of) the Philippine Revolution intersecting with the Bald Eagle's war against Spain; apparently fooled into thinking it is part of the supposed alliance, Aguinaldo a few weeks stupidly earlier ordered his men "not to interfere" with the North Americans, inadvertently allowing the free entry of the G.I.'s that would lead to the infamous August 1898 Mock Battle of Manila that would falsely make it appear that the Americans--instead of the Filipino revolutionaries--are responsible for defeating the Spaniards in the Southeast Asian archipelago; the baseless Treaty of Paris "ceding" the Philippines to the Bald Eagle nation would be signed, the U.S. Congress would approve, the enemy Americans will invade with might and cruelty and the Filipinos would unsuccessfully fight a protracted and bloody war to preserve their newfound freedom and dignity.

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1901 - Gen. Miguel Malvar y Carpio succeeds as Commander-in-Chief of the beleaguered Philippine Republic following President Emilio F. Aguinaldo's treacherous capture by, and hasty swearing of fealty to, the imperialist United States forces nearly 2 1/2 years into the protracted and bloody Filipino-American War (1899-1914); more than three years earlier, Bald Eagle Commodore George Dewey had earlier met with Aguinaldo to strike an alliance, with Filipinos in his nation's separate war with Spain, deceptively making assurances that America is intends to honor Philippine independence; by August 1898, the US and Spain wickedly staged the infamous Mock Battle of Manila that falsely showed to the world that it was the Americans instead of the Filipinos defeated the Spaniards in the capital, Manila; in five months' time, the Treaty of Paris will be signed, with the virtually ousted-by-Filipinos Spain ridiculously 'ceding' the Philippines to the Bald Eagle nation for $20,000,000 US, and on February 4, 1899, American generals will deliberately instigate the bloody and protracted Philippine-American War (1899-1914) in the nefarious bid of the US President William McKinley to make their Congress approve the Treaty of Paris and the annexation [translation: invasion] of the fledgling Southeast Asian nation; Malvar would reverse Aguinaldo's policy of upholding elite interests, giving importance to the role of peasantry in the anti-imperialist resistance and resulting to covert support of the townspeople to the Filipino freedom fighters while pretending to cooperate with the North American colonizers; by December 1901, Malvar would shift from defensive to offensive campaigns against a number of towns held by the enemy Americans; it would only be after US Gen. Franklin Bell's horrific reconcentration campaign that would break the back of the resistance movement in Batangas province that Gen. Malvar will surrender to enemy flag in 1902 ; other Filipino guerrila leaders, such as Macario Sakay and Simeon Ola, and Muslim compatriots in the South will continue the valiant war against the heavily armed North American invaders until about 1913.

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