Excerpt from The History and Conquest of the Philippines and Our Other Island Possessions: Embracing Our War With the Filipinos in 1899 It is the purpose of this volume to present a clear, concise, inter esting and readable story of the conquest of the Philippines and of our other island possessions. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.