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1899
Fighting broke out today in America's newest colony, the Philipines, which declared itself a republic last month. The US had supported the Filipino nationalist revolutionary General Emilio Aguinaldo against the islands' spanish colonial masters during the Spanish-American war. Aguinaldo had thought the US would back Filipino independence after the war, and last month he declared the Philipines a republic, with himself its first president.
But the rebels, had won their freedom only to lose it again - the US annexed the islands as a prize of war. Aguinaldo and his army have risen up against their new colonial masters, so now Aguinaldo is fighting his former allies.
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