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Fil-American War

Miguel Malvar and the Last Battles of the Filipino-American War

Miguel Malvar y Carpio, born on 27 September 1865 in San Miguel, Santo Tomas, Batangas, was the son of Maximo Malvar and Tiburcia Carpio. ...

Batangas History 10 Dec, 2025

Gen. J. Franklin Bell’s Circulars to the US Army Regarding Filipino “Insurgents”

[Transcriptions] There is an extensive coverage in this web site already of the Philippine-American War from 1899 to 1902, albeit scatte...

Batangas History 27 Jul, 2024

Communications between Apolinario Mabini, Luciano San Miguel and William Howard Taft

This page contains a series of communications extracted from the 1903 Report of the Philippine Commission 1 between Batangas’ revolutiona...

Batangas History 27 Jun, 2022

[Photo] US Army Troops on the Road to Lipa, Batangas

Image credit: United States National Archives and Records Administration Digital Library From the United States National Archives and Rec...

Batangas History 14 Mar, 2021

“At the Capture of Rosario:” an Account of the US Army’s 1900 Incursion into Batangas

This article contains a transcription of an article that appeared in a 12 January 1900 issue of “The American 1 ,” an English-language new...

Batangas History 6 May, 2020

Barrios in Lipa where Concentration Camps were set up during the Fil-Am War

Most readers will recall from secondary History textbooks that Batangas was the last province to drop its resistance to United States forc...

Batangas History 23 Oct, 2019

The “Rescue” of Spanish Prisoners in Rosario, Batangas by American Soldiers in 1900

In a much earlier article, Batangas History already featured the capture and looting of the then-town of Lipa 1 in 1900 by forces of the ...

Batangas History 27 Sep, 2019

Apolinario Mabini’s Letters to the Philippine Commission Seeking an Armistice Early in the Fil-Am War

The December 1898 Treaty of Paris formally ended the Spanish-American War; and as the defeated nation, Spain officially “relinquished all ...

Batangas History 16 Feb, 2019

Concluding Part: US Military Operations in Batangas from 1901-02 during the Fil-American War

This article concludes the series we have been running on Batangas History regarding how the United States Army and Volunteers operated in ...

Batangas History 26 Jan, 2019

Part VII: US Military Operations in Batangas from 1901-02 during the Fil-American War

[In this article: Batangas Province, Philippine American War, United States Army in the Philippines, Lipa City Batangas, Lobo Batangas, Mou...

Batangas History 15 Jan, 2019