The Treaty of Manila of , formally the Treaty of General Relations and Protocol , [ 1 ] is a treaty of general relations signed on July 4, , in Manila , the capital of the Philippines. It relinquished U. The treaty was signed by High Commissioner Paul V. Senate gave its advice and consent on July 31, , by ratification of the treaty. Commodore Dewey's decisive victory in the Battle of Manila Bay on May 1, , marked the fall of Spanish inshore defenses in the Philippines.
At the time of Aguinaldo's proclamation, Filipino troops were set on defeating the last of the Spaniards. By the end of July, an estimated total of 12, US troops had arrived to join the Filipino forces. To begin with, the American and Filipino troops were said to have "lacked that camaraderie usually present between military associates. Almost without exception, soldiers and also many officers refer to the natives in their presence as " niggers " and natives are beginning to understand what the word "nigger" means.
The "painful discrepancy in interests" [ 7 ] became increasingly obvious to Aguinaldo, who once declined to attend a Fourth of July ceremony in Cavite after he was addressed "general", instead of "president", in the written invitation. In a meeting, Aguinaldo was reported to have bluntly asked, "Does the United States intend to hold the Philippines as dependencies?
I leave you to draw your own inference. The PhilippineโAmerican War culminated in the formal transfer of power over the Philippines. Instead, both agreed on a set of terms provided by the Treaty of Paris to which the First Philippine Republic objected, marking the start of the PhilippineโAmerican War. The Treaty of Paris of was an agreement made in that involved Spain relinquishing nearly all of the remaining Spanish Empire , especially Cuba , and ceding Puerto Rico , Guam , and the Philippines to the United States.
The Treaty of Paris came into effect on April 11, , when the documents of ratification were exchanged. It marked the beginning of the age of the United States as a world power. The PhilippineโAmerican War intervened, during which McKinley heeded the commission's recommendations, established the Second Philippine Commission the Taft Commission , and granted it legislative and limited executive powers.
