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1899&ndash1913
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The Philippines
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Continued US annexation of the Philippines
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United States
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The Philippines
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Elwell Stephen Otis
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Emilio Aguinaldo
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126,000 soldiers
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80,000 soldiers
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4,324 US soldiers dead <br>2,840 wounded 2,000 killed, dead, or wounded of the Philippine Constabulary
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16,000 soldiers killed<br>est 250,000 to 1,000,000 civilians died of war, famine, or disease1 p 125, ''As many as 200,000 civilians also died, victims of disease and famine and the cruelties of both sides'' <br>2 ''"In the fifteen years that followed the defeat of the Spanish in Manila Bay in 1898, more Filipinos were killed by US forces than by the Spanish in 300 years of colonization Over 15 million died out of a total population of 6 million"''<br> 3 p 154, ''Hundreds of thousands of Filipinos died in battle, of disease, or of other war-related causes''<br> 4 p 335, ''Some seven thousand Americans and twenty thousand Filipinos were killed or wounded in the war, and hundreds of thousands of Filipinos--some estimates are as high as 1 million--died of war-related disease or famine''<br> 5 ''The Philippines: 20,000 military dead 200,000 civilian dead Some historians, however, put the toll higher -- closer to 1 million Filipinos because of the disease and starvation that ensued''<br> 6 ''Although a quarter of the million is the "consensual" figure of historians, estimates of Filipino deaths from the war have ranged as high as one million, which would have meant depopulation of the islands by around one-sixth''
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