I arrived by night, stuffed into the back of a Jeepney next to a basket of chickens. It was late, and the town was quiet. The ...

With its victory and subsequent annexation of the Philippines ... May 1 and destroyed the obsolete Spanish fleet anchored there. While Dewey blockaded the islands, the U.S. quickly organized ...

The Philippines, an archipelago of over 7,000 islands, is full of magnificent ... with a history dating back to the Spanish landing in the archipelago. Ferdinand Magellan first stepped foot ...

Torongan Cave, on the island's east side ... Legazpi finally succeeded in establishing Cebu as the first Spanish colony in the Philippines. To walk Cebu's streets is to travel through time.

In the late 1800s, Jose Rizal founded the Filipino League, which began fighting Spanish colonial rule of the Philippine Islands. Emilio Aguinaldo succeeded Rizal after his ... And under the treaty, ...

In the fall of 1896, Filipino nationalists revolted against the Spanish rule that had controlled the Philippines since ... independence of the Philippine islands, and in January 1899 he became ...