The Battle of Manila, the first and largest battle of the Philippine–American War, was fought on February 4–5, 1899, between 19,000 American soldiers and 15,000 Filipino armed militiamen. Armed confli
U.S. soldiers of the First Nebraska Volunteers, Company B, near Manila in 1899.
Private William Walter Grayson who fired the first shots in the Battle of Manila (1899).
U.S. battery in action at the Bridge of San Juan del Monte, 1899
The Bridge of San Juan del Monte in 1899
The Battle of Manila, sometimes called the Mock Battle of Manila, was a land engagement which took place in Manila on August 13, 1898, at the end of the Spanish–American War, three months after the de
Battle of Manila (1899)
…Chief of Engineers: Major James Franklin Bell After the surrender of Manila to American forces by the Spanish in 1898, General Aguinaldo demanded the occupation of a line of blockhouses on the Zapote Line, which had been the…
"Raising the American flag over Fort Santiago, Manila, on the evening of August 13, 1898." drawing from Harper's Pictorial History of the War with Spain.