The Fall of Manila (Philippines): Fermin Jaudenes y Alvarez, Governor-General of the Spanish enclave of the Philippines, surrenders the city to Major General Wesley Merritt, commanding the Eighth Corps of the Army of the United states.
NOTE: Jaudenes and Merritt had secretly reached an agreement that Manila would only be surrendered to the U.s., and not General Emilio Aguinaldo, commanding the Revolutionary Army of Philippines.
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References:
Calvin D. Linton, ed., The Bicentennial Almanac: 200 Years of America, 1776-1976, (Nashville, Tennessee: Thomas Nelson, 1975), 253.
Philippine–American War – Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philippine%E2%80%93American_War
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