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On May 1, 1898, Commodore George Dewey led the U.S. Navy’s Asiatic Squadron to a decisive victory against the Spanish fleet in Manila Bay. The following year, he was commissioned Admiral of the Navy.
The relative ease with which the United States dispatched the Spanish squadron in Manila Bay was only the beginning of what would become a nearly 50-year American presence in the Philippines. It was one thing to capture the islands, but another thing entirely to set up a working administration. The Philippines encompasses about 7,100 islands and sits nearly 8,600 miles away from Washington, DC. By the late 1890s, it had an estimated population of 8 million.63 Dewey’s victory had come so fast that few in the McKinley administration appeared to have given much thought to what came next.64
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