The Americans killed thousands (if not tens of thousands or 100,000 or more) Filipinos in this war and we've forgotten about it even though it's not a hidden conspiracy theory. See Karnow's In our Image for a biased American history of this ; Mmina Maclang Tamayo aka @thoughtspresso:: It doesn't escape me as someone from a former US colony (and in many ways continue to be under Uncle Sam's thumb), that they indeed brought a gift horse to our shores. In the late 1890s, under the guise of friendship, the US staged the Battle of Manila to pretend to help fight off the Spanish colonizers. Then they turned around and became our colonizer. 🤷🏻‍♀️

Discovered: Jul 21, 2026 06:22 (UTC) The Americans killed thousands (if not tens of thousands or 100,000 or more) Filipinos in this war and we’ve forgotten about it even though it’s not a hidden conspiracy theory. See Karnow’s In our Image for a biased American history of this ; Mmina Maclang Tamayo aka @thoughtspresso:: It doesn’t escape me as someone from a former US colony (and in many ways continue to be under Uncle Sam’s thumb), that they indeed brought a gift horse to our shores. In the late 1890s, under the guise of friendship, the US staged the Battle of Manila to pretend to help fight off the Spanish colonizers. Then they turned around and became our colonizer. 🤷🏻‍♀️

References

• Wikipedia: In Our Image: America’s Empire in the Philippines
• Wikipedia: The Philippine–American War, known alternatively as the Filipino–American War, Philippine Insurrection, or Tagalog Insurgency

  • Filipino casualties were much greater than among Americans. The United States Department of State states that the war “resulted in the death of over 4,200 American and over 20,000 Filipino combatants”, and that “as many as 200,000 Filipino civilians died from violence, famine, and disease” … A cholera epidemic “1902 cholera outbreak of the Philippines”) at the war’s end killed between 150,000 and 200,000 people.20 According to Andrea Pitzer, over 11,000 Filipinos died in concentration camps.

  • Some estimates reach 1,000,000 dead…..Filipino scholar Luzviminda Francisco cites an alleged interview in The New York Times with General James M. Bell, who commanded forces in a part of southern Luzon, in May 1901 where it was said he suggested that “over 600,000 people in Luzon alone had been killed or had died of disease as a result of the war”. Francisco also cites the forced incarceration of a reported 300,000 people in the province of Albay, and allegations of war crimes in Mindanao and high death rates in Bilibid Prison to raise doubts of the validity of, then, accepted casualty figures for the war. …Historian John M. Gates has described the figure of 600,000 as unfounded and exaggerated …According to Gates, the maximum possible number of war-related deaths in the Philippines between 1898 and 1903 is 321,000 based on American and Spanish census data

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