THE SPANISH-AMERICAN WAR. 422 individualAmericans in the streets. Outside it was a strange battle, at one part of the field a Tagal tribe, the Ygorrotes, attacking a battery of modern artillery with bows and arrows. More than two hundred Americans, and more than a thousand of the insurgents, fell in the battle.

Its immediate result was an overwhelming vote in the Senate for the annexation of the Philippines, and orders to General Otis, who commanded at Manila, to push his operations vigorously- against the rebels. Iloilo,threatened by the American fleet, was burned and abandonedby its nativegarrison. Thevillages round Manila were cleared of the enemy, not without further hard fighting. Otis declared his intention of immediately marching,on Malolos. The friends of the insurgents replied that the fall oi Malolos would only mark the beginning of a long guerilla warfare. In three centuries the Spaniards had not succeeded in conquering the Philippines. They only held certain points on the coast and some districts in the interior of the larger islands. Did the Americans expectto clear the tropical jungles out in three months? And had they counted the cost of a war of conquest ?

The fall of Manila was thus only the prelude to new conflicts, in which the Americans found themselves face to face with the same forces ot disorder with which the Spaniards had had to contend before the war.

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