10 Obscure Facts About America's Empire in the Philippines

10 Obscure Facts About America's Empire in the Philippines

When the United States acquired the Philippines from Spain in 1898, she first had to forcibly assert her rule and put down the Filipino struggle for independence. After the bloody war that betrayed all of America’s principles and idealism, the U.S. began to atone in some measure for her sins, and though imperialist greed and […] The post 10 Obscure Facts About America’s Empire in the Philippines appeared first on Listverse.