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To the dismay of the Filipino nationalists, after the Treaty of Paris, which ended the war with Spain on December 10, 1898, the United States decided to grant Cuba its independence while keeping the Philippines.
Filipino revolutionaries led by Aguinaldo seized control of the majority of the Philippines' main island of Luzon and announced the foundation of the independent Philippine Republic during the post-Spanish-American War annexation debate in the United States.
When the United States legally seized the Philippines as part of its peace accord with Spain, Aguinaldo's hopes for independence were shattered. By mid-August, Filipino insurgents and American troops had driven out the Spanish.
The Spanish Pacific fleet, which was rumored to be in the territorial waters of the Spanish-controlled Philippines, was to be "captured or destroyed," according to U.S. Commodore George Dewey, in command of the seven-warship U.S. Asiatic Squadron anchored north of Hong Kong.
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