ABOUT THE WORK

The United States would go to war in its newly acquired colonies of the Philippines, Cuba and Puerto Rico, and this issue of the New York Tribune — predecessor of today's International Herald Tribune — dated March 17, 1899, gives several accounts of the military operations between American soldiers and the so-called "Filipino rebels" in Pasig from an American point of view. The first page includes two war reports, dated March 13 and 15, a map of Manila and its environs with place names written in the old way —San Pedro Macati instead of Makati, for example — and a letter from General Otis dated March 16, in which he reports that the situation in Bisayas is under control and that the Tagalog resistance is divided into northern and southern Luzon. The articles speak of the advances of the American troops in Pásig, but also of the bravery of the Filipino soldiers in surprise attacks that pushed back the Americans, as well as of the fierce resistance of the "Filipino rebels" in Pateros and Taguig, which were then still under the control of the revolutionary government. There is more information of the war operations in the Philippines in the following pages which are evidence of the Filipinos' resilience and courage in the face of a militarily superior enemy.