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  Samahan | The Filipino Student Association of the University of Chicago   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
It is surrounded by the South China Sea to the west, the Pacific Ocean to the east, the Sulu and Celebes Sea to the south, and the Bashi Channel to the north.
Government: The Republic of the Philippines is a democratic republic and has a presidential form of government under the new Constitution, which was ratified by the people on February 2, 1987.
The Philippine Bill of 1902 provided for the establishment of a bicameral legislature, and five years later, on October 16,1907, the first session of the Philippine Assembly opened, with an elected lower house and the Philippine Commission, previously established, as the upper house.
samahan.uchicago.edu /archive/2003/history_and_culture.html   (3311 words)

  
 About the Army - The Evolution of Philippine Army Seal   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
On July 25 1959, Royal Blue was adopted as the organizational color of the Philippine Army discarding the maroon in keeping with the distinctive color of the PA which is blue.
Present Army patch is basically that of a modified pentagonal shield which signifies defense- the Army's primary and ultimate mission.
This triangular emblem, with a white border signifying the Army's foremost preoccupation with peace, its the historic coat-of-arm of the Philippine Revolutionary Army of 1897.
www.army.mil.ph /about_the_army/evolution_seal.html   (542 words)

  
 Military history of the Philippines - FreeEncyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
In 1935, President-elect Manuel L. Quezon convinced Chief of Staff of the United States Army[?] General Douglas MacArthur to act as the military adviser to the Commonwealth of the Philippines.
The Philippine Constabulary and the Philippine Department's Philippine Scouts were used to create the core of the new Philippine Army.
In July of 1941, MacArthur was informed that it was now the policy of the United States to defend the Philippines, whereas, the goal had formerly been to merely train the Philippine Army.
openproxy.ath.cx /mi/Military_History_of_the_Philippines.html   (1548 words)

  
 Putting Mao at the Heart of Party Life   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
In their respective times, the Philippine revolutionary army and the Hukbalahap were the rallying points of the organized and spontaneous masses.
To deny the necessity of developing people̓s war and building the people̓s army in stages, while the enemy force is still intact and not yet disintegrating, is not only to demagogically take advantage of a natural desire for quick victory but to lead the revolutionary forces to self-destruction.
We, as proletarian revolutionaries, have the advantage of availing ourselves of proven Marxist-Leninist theory in the new democratic revolution and the socialist revolution and construction as well as of learning lessons from the peaceful evolution of socialism to capitalism and prospectively from an inevitable resurgence of the anti-imperialist and socialist movement.
www.awtw.org /back_issues/1998-23/cppMaoismRectifi_23Eng.htm   (9426 words)

  
 About the Army - The Battle of Mactan   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Almost a year after the outbreak of hostilities between the Katipuneros and the Spanish troops, the Philippine Revolutionary Government and its Army were born on March 22, 1897 at Tejeros, San Francisco de Malabon in Cavite.
The army spared five battalions which comprised the Philippine Expeditionary Forces to Korea (PEFTOK) to fulfill its pledge to uphold the struggle for democracy.
The Philippine Army, therefore, is not only the protector of the Filipino people but also a partner in nation building, true to its slogan,"At your service, across the land".
www.army.mil.ph /about_the_army/history/history.html   (749 words)

  
 Chronology--Philippines and Guam
Governor-General of the Philippine Islands Fernando Primo de Rivera, in a surprise move, was replaced by Governor-General Basilo Augustín Dávila in early April.
Upon his departure from the Philippines, the insurgent movement renewed revolutionary activity due mainly to the Spanish government's failure to abide by the terms of the Pact of Biak-na-Bato.
Philippine revolutionists began the siege of the Spanish garrison at Baler, Luzon, Philippine Islands.
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 Army National Guard History
Newer helicopters and fixed wing aircraft were received by the Army Guard in addition to upgraded tanks and artillery pieces, while infantry units replaced their recoilless rifles with TOW and Dragon antitank missiles.
A majority of the U.S. Army's combat service support units were now located in the reserve components, and the majority of the first Army Guard units to be mobilized were transportation, quartermaster, and military police units.
Army Guard units were still arriving in the Persian Gulf in January 1991 as the offensive against Iraq, Desert Storm, was launched by the Allied air forces.
www.globalsecurity.org /military/agency/army/arng-history.htm   (6403 words)

  
 FILIPINO AUSTNET
The intrepid Magellan was dubbed the "discoverer" of the Philippines after he landed upon the island of Homonhon, near Samar, on March 17, 1521, he then claimed these islands in the name of King Philip II of Spain and named them Felipinas, the Philippines.
On most islands of the Philippines, the rain season occurs during the summer monsoon, from May to November, when the wind blows from the southwest; the dry season occurs during the winter monsoon, from December to April, when the wind blows from the northeast.
Under the Philippine Constitution, the bicameral legislature consists of a senate of 24 members, serving six-year terms, and a house of representatives with a maximum of 250 members, serving three-year terms.
www.tambayanet.org /filipino/about.html   (5701 words)

  
 Gulisak - Kapampangans at the Birth of a Revolution   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
An exhibit on the Kapampangan participation in the Philippine Revolution
to attend the celebration commemorating the declaration of Philippine independence.
General Maximino Hizon leads the Philippine Revolutionary Army in Pampanga
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 History/Background of the Philippines
Other countries wanted a foothold in the Philippines and during the 16th century there were attempts to achieve this goal in part by the English and Dutch.
He resumed command of the Philippine revolutionary army and in July that same year, was able to establish a new government with himself as the president, since the Spanish were retreating.
The military authority in the Philippines was replaced by a U.S. civil government in 1902 with William Howard Taft becoming the first civil governor.
www.asianinfo.org /asianinfo/philippines/pro-history.htm   (1519 words)

  
 The Philippine Flag   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
This flag combines all the prominent elements of Revolutionary imagery: the three K's, the triangle and the liwanag.
The convention of March 17, 1897 in Naik, Cavite decreed this to be the flag of the Philippine revolutionary government.
Banned by the Americans after the suppression of the Republic, the flag was revived at the establishment of the Philippine Commonwealth.
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 Philippine Revolution --  Encyclopædia Britannica
The Treaty of Paris (1898) transferred Philippine sovereignty from Spain to the United States but was not recognized by Filipino leaders, whose troops were in actual control of the entire...
The first president of the Philippines was the revolutionary general and hero Emilio Aguinaldo.
After fighting broke out in 1896, he rose to become a general of the revolutionary army and president of a revolutionary government declared in 1897.
www.britannica.com /eb/article-9059694?tocId=9059694   (804 words)

  
 Perspectives for the Philippine Revolution
The Philippines offers a mirror-image: the speed of reaction is due to the impatience and frustration of the officer caste under the pressure of the guerrilla war; meanwhile, weighed against this pressure, on the other scale the working class remains politically muted and incoherent, due to the CPP's emphasis on the peasantry.
Even in the countries of Eastern Europe, occupied by the Russian Red Army at the end of the Second World War, with the flight of the bourgeois collaborators and their armies, Stalin's policy was the nationalisation of the property of the pro-German collaborators, but full licence for the so-called "national capitalists" to operate privately.
On the bayonets of a peasant army invading the cities and led by a military hierarchy, the proletariat, with its rich revolutionary traditions of the workers' revolution of 1925-7, was forced to remain passive.
www.marxist.com /Asia/philippines87.html   (18294 words)

  
 Army Helmet : Safety Equipment   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
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Deficiencies 11 The Japanese Decide to Attack The Battle of Mactan On April 21, 1521, Lapu-Lapu, a chieftain of Mactan, defeated Ferdinand Magellan at the Battle of Mactan.
Philippine Revolutionary Army The Philippine Revolutionary Army was founded on March 22, 1897, in Cavite.
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 Philippine Centennial Series
In one of the cruelest episodes of the Philippine-American War, thousands of Samar civilians including innocent women and children were killed by American forces on orders by their general to turn Samar into "a howling wilderness." This was in retaliation for an earlier raid by Filipino independence fighters on the American garrison in Balangiga.
An unsung and almost unknown hero was a pure-blooded Chinese who served as a general in the Philippine Revolutionary Army.
The Philippine History Group of Los Angeles invites you to send your comments to the editor of this Philippine Centennial Series, Hector Santos.
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 City of San Fernando
After the outbreak of the Philippine Revolution, it was declared in a state of war on September 1, 1896.
The town was occupied by the Japanese Imperial Army and, due to its strategic location, was used as their base of operations in their assault of Bataan.
city of the Republic of the Philippines as by virtue of the ratification of Republic Act 8990 on February 4, 2001.
www.geocities.com /balen_net/sanfernando.htm   (389 words)

  
 ipedia.com: Military history of the Philippines Article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
However, after the Spanish-American War the United States proceeded to lay claim to the Philippines and on February 4, 1899, the Filipino-American War began.
Prior to the establishment of the Commonwealth of the Philippines, in 1935, the United States Army had maintained a force in the Philippines.
Japanese military planners argued that the British (and the USSR should they decide to declare war) would be unable to effectively respond to a Japanese attack, given the threat posed by the Third Reich.
www.ipedia.com /military_history_of_the_philippines.html   (1661 words)

  
 Senators Profile   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
He was admitted to the Philippine Bar in 1910.
During the insurrection against Spain, he was a first lieutenant of the Infantry of the Philippine Revolutionary Army, and during the American regime he was Municipal Secretary, Municipal Councilor and Municipal president of Malolos.
He was one of the founders of the Philippine Independent Church.
www.senate.gov.ph /senators/former_senators/nicolas_buendia.htm   (146 words)

  
 RW ONLINE: European Union Targets Philippine Maoist Revolutionary Jose Maria Sison
This move by the EU is the latest in a recent series of outrageous attacks on Sison and the Philippine revolutionary movement by the U.S. and European imperialists and the reactionary Philippine government.
In fact, it is a disciplined revolutionary army led by the CPP.
The people and the revolutionary forces have no choice but to defend themselves and defeat their oppressors and exploiters in order to bring about national liberation and democracy.
rwor.org /a/v24/1171-1180/1176/sison.htm   (1032 words)

  
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From one conflict to another, the course of Philippine history rides and has ridden, in the foot soldier’s knapsack - the destiny of the Filipino nation decided on the blade of its bayonet and the steel of his nerve.
In Tirad Pass, was Gen. Gregorio del Pilar who stayed behind and held at bay the US Army and gave time for his superior to escape.
Not to forget Andres Bonifacio and his revolutionary katipuneros that made them the epitaph of a Filipino warrior.
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 Chronology of the Spanish-American War
Emilio Aguinaldo was elected president of the new republic of the Philippines; Andrés Bonifacio was demoted to the director of the interior.
U.S. Army Lieutenant Andrew S. Rowan, through the assistance of the U.S. government, the Cuban Delegation in New York, and the mambises in Cuba, made contact with General Calixto García in Bayamo to seek his cooperation and to obtain military and political assessment of Cuba.
Thomas McArthur Anderson (1836-1917) commanded the vanguard of the Philippine Expeditionary Force (Eighth Army Corps), which arrived at Cavite, Philippine Islands on June 1.
www.loc.gov /rr/hispanic/1898/chronology.html   (3487 words)

  
 Philippine Heroines of the Revolution
She was among the first leaders and members of the secret conclaves of the Revolutionary movement in Sta.
The revolutionary movement brought her through dense jungle growth to a safe area where she boarded a boat to safety in Hong Kong.
Not only is she the first of the "first ladies" of the Philippines, but the founder of the Philippine Red Cross.
www.univie.ac.at /Voelkerkunde/apsis/aufi/wstat/heroine.htm   (2684 words)

  
 :: Welcome to Manila Bulletin Online ::   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
NOT content with thrashing the Philippine flag, we are now trivializing the National Anthem by using it as a ringtone.
By the time President Aguinaldo asked Jose Palma to supply the words for the “Marcha,’’ the Philippine Revolutionary Army and American occupation forces were at daggers drawn; the bitter war between the two forces was imminent and irreversible.
“Land of the Morning” was adopted by the Philippine Commonwealth in 1934 and generations of Filipinos sang their national anthem in a rather archaic American English.
www.mb.com.ph /issues/2004/04/27/OPED200404278215.html   (721 words)

  
 Workers World Dec. 23, 2004: Philippine revolutionary speaks to the world
On Nov. 16, at least seven striking sugar workers were killed by the Philippine army and police.
Bringing pressure from the other side are the Philippine masses, whose long history of revolutionary activity began more than a century ago when their rebellion against Spanish colonial rule quickly turned into a war of resistance against the new colonizers from North America.
Under their new rules, those who opposed British rule in the 13 colonies would be categorized as terrorists, as would Sison and all who have sought to throw off the yoke of foreign imperialist oppression.
www.workers.org /ww/2004/sison1223.php   (490 words)

  
 LAKBAY.NET - Online Travel Reservation for the Philippines
It was used as a military hospital by the US Army from 1899 to 1900.
Used as a jail for recalcitrant troops by the US Army from 1899 to 1910, and as headquarters of the 11th Film Exchange US Army from 1946 to 1947.
Used as a military hospital by the US Army in 1889 and as troop barracks, officer's quarters, and arsenal by the Japanese Imperial Forces in 1942.
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 Dr.Sobredo ESSAY
What is of historical significance is that all the US troops that fought in the wars in the Philippines from 1898 to 1902 were garrisoned and trained in San Francisco's Presidio.
The highest concentration of Filipinos outside the Philippines is in Daly City, where Filipinos comprise the largest Asian group and City Hall has had a Filipino mayor.
When these "Indios," as all the native inhabitants of the Philippines were called by the Spaniards, arrived in Mexico, they jumped ship to escape their Spanish captors and assimilated into Mexican society.
www.csus.edu /aas/aas-faculty/sobredo-fieldnotes-7-99.htm   (1746 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: Philippine Revolutionary Army   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
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 AsiaFinest Discussion Forum -> Philippine Army History
March 22, 1897 - Philippine Revolutionary Government and its Army were born
Army was disbanded after our lost to the Americans during the war
Quezon’s National Defense Act was enacted paved the way to the birth of the new Philippine Army (PA)
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Here are links to other sites that you can find additional information related to the Philippine Marines.
Anthony's Navy site,> His personal collection from friends who like him had an interest in the Navy when they were young and looked forward to port visits of ships at thier home town.
His interest in Philippine bladed weapons is also featured with the banners of the Philippine Revolutionary Army the "Katipunan".
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