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  caption <small>Filipino casualties on the first day of Philippine-American War Original caption is 'Insurgent dead just as they fell in the trench near Santa Ana, February 5th The trench was circular, and the picture shows but a small portion'</small>
  date 1899-1901 <br> 1901-1913
  place Philippines
  result United States victory and colonization of the Philippine Islands
  combatant1 United States
  combatant2 Philippines
  commander1 William McKinley <br /> Theodore Roosevelt
  commander2 Emilio Aguinaldo
  strength1 126,000 soldiers
  strength2 80,000 soldiers
  casualties1 4,324 US soldiers dead, 3,000 wounded <br />
  casualties2 16,000 soldiers killed<br />est 250,000 to 1,000,000 civilians died of war (through combatants of both sides), famine, or disease1 p&nbsp125, ''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&nbsp154, ''Hundreds of thousands of Filipinos died in battle, of disease, or of other war-related causes''<br /> 4 p&nbsp335, ''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''