August 14, 1898: The U.S. Military Government That Began Without Filipino Consent
Philippines/USA • August 1898. On This Day: The U.S. Military Government That Began Without Filipino Consent. wesley merritt, mock battle of manila, philippine-american war, spanish-american war, us nationals, fil-am history, decolonization. On This Day • August 1898 August 14, 1898: The U.S. Military Government That Began Without Filipino Consent One day after a staged battle shut Filipino revolutionary forces out of their own capital, Major General Wesley Merritt declared a U.S. Military Government over the Philippines — the hinge point where American "liberation" became American colonization. Manila, August 1898 — the week the Philippines changed colonizers without ever being asked. I left the Philippines in 1976, but I didn't leave with a blank slate. I grew up in Marikina reading Rizal and Bonifacio off my titas/titos' bookshelf in #34. So when I sit with a date like August 14, 1898, I don't read it as a paragraph in ...