His father, a former soldier in the Spanish army, operated a small rice farm, but as mestizos the family enjoyed a higher social status than even wealthy Filipinos. Manuel was sent to school in ...

While Dewey blockaded the islands, the U.S. quickly organized an army ... the Spanish that they would offer only token resistance if the Americans kept Emilio Aguinaldo's dangerous Filipino ...

WASHINGTON, Feb. 1 -- The War Department intends to so slowly in the interesting experiment which the new army law permits ... military organizations of Filipinos now, unless the squadron of ...