![]() ![]() troops, cost more lives and had a more significant impact on the United States than the three-month Spanish-American War that preceded it. Known at the time as the “Philippine Insurrection,” this war lasted longer, involved more U.S. The war that accomplished this feat officially lasted from February 1899 to July 1902, but regional guerrilla warfare and sporadic rebellions continued well into the next decade. To become a major power in Asia, with a naval coaling station in the Philippines providing easier access to the seemingly unlimited commercial markets in China, the United States first had to defeat the Filipinos’ poorly armed but popular army and abolish their newly established republic. The Filipinos, having waged a successful revolution for independence, controlled the rest of the country. ![]() The Philippine-American War, the United States’ first protracted war in Asia, marked the beginning of what Henry Luce would later name the “American Century.” When it purchased the Philippines from Spain at the end of the Spanish-American War, the United States held only Manila and its suburbs. ![]()
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