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Deaths. Notes. Chinese Massacre of 1603. October 1603. Manila, Captaincy General of the Philippines. 15,000–25,000 [1] Fearing an uprising by the large Chinese community in the Philippines, the Spanish colonists carried out the massacre, largely in the Manila area. [2] Chinese Massacre of 1639.
v. t. e. Citizens of Manila run for safety from suburbs burned by Japanese soldiers, 10 February 1945. Destruction of the Walled City (Intramuros), 1945. The Manila massacre (Filipino: Pagpatay sa Maynila or Masaker sa Maynila), also called the Rape of Manila (Filipino: Paggahasa ng Maynila), involved atrocities committed against Filipino ...
Clockwise from top left: U.S. troops in Manila, Gregorio del Pilar and his troops around 1898, Americans guarding the Pasig River bridge in 1898, the Battle of Santa Cruz, Filipino soldiers at Malolos, the Battle of Quingua. Date. Philippine–American War: February 4, 1899 – July 4, 1902. (3 years, 2 months, 1 week and 5 days)[i] Moro Rebellion:
Philippine Campaign Medal. General Jacob Hurd Smith (January 29, 1840 – March 1, 1918) was a U.S. Army officer notorious for ordering indiscriminate retaliation on the island of Samar in response to what is called the Balangiga massacre during the Philippine–American War. [1][2] Smith's plan involved stopping the flow of food and causing ...
54 killed. 18 wounded [6] The Balangiga massacre was an incident in which the residents of the town of Balangiga on the island of Samar conducted a surprise attack on an occupying unit of the U.S. 9th Infantry, killing 54. [7][8][9] The incident is also known as the Balangiga Encounter, Balangiga Incident, [10] or Balangiga Conflict, [3] The ...
The Jabidah massacre on March 18, 1968, was the purported assassinations or executions of Moro army recruits who allegedly mutinied upon learning the true nature of their mission. [3] It is acknowledged as a major flashpoint that ignited the Moro insurgency in the Philippines. [4][5]
The Bataan Death March[ a ] was the forcible transfer by the Imperial Japanese Army of 75,000 [ 1 ] American and Filipino prisoners of war (POW) from the municipalities of Bagac and Mariveles on the Bataan Peninsula to Camp O'Donnell via San Fernando. The transfer began on 9 April 1942 after the three-month Battle of Bataan in the Philippines ...
The dictatorship of 10th Philippine president Ferdinand Marcos in the 1970s and 1980s is historically remembered for its record of human rights abuses, [1][2] particularly targeting political opponents, student activists, [3] journalists, religious workers, farmers, and others who fought against his dictatorship.