That First Republic, unfortunately, did not last, as the Americans, then fighting a worldwide war against Spain came to the Philippines where Admiral George Dewey defeated the Spanish fleet in Manila Bay in 1898, even as Aguinaldo fought Spanish ground forces around the country.
Spain subsequently signed a peace treaty with the Americans under which it yielded the Philippines, Cuba, and Puerto Rico, ignoring General Aguinaldo’s Philippine Revolution which was beginning to win victories over the Spanish forces. The Philippine-American War followed but it ended when Aguinaldo was captured by American troops in Palanan, Isabela, in 1901.
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