Filipino American Relationship Research Paper

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The Filipino-American relationship was broken due to the skirmish at the San Juan Bridge in February 1899. On February 4, 1899, an American Soldier, Private William Grayson, shot a Filipino solider at the bridge of San Juan, Manila. This fatal shot was followed by an immediate U.S offensive on the Filipino lines. This marked the beginning of the Filipino-American war which lasted for three years until the establishment of the civilian colonial government Governador-General William Howard Taft on July 4, 1902. Despite the effort to settles the conflict against Americans, war was declared. The Filipino troops tried their best to win against the Americans but they failed because of the supremacy of the Americans in firearms and Filipino troops