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or Instagram. It's February 7, 1899. We're in Washington, DC, inside the US capital's

spacious, rectangular Senate chamber. Some senators are just walking in, others have taken

their place among the desks, forming a semi-circle around the rostrum. But whatever their position,

any observer in the chamber's second-story gallery seating could tell you, the men

are engrossed in conversation. Their subject is the Philippines.

Let me fill you in on the situation here. It was just yesterday that this very august

body, the US Senate, ratified last year's Spanish-American war-ending Treaty of Paris.

As we know from episode 105, this treaty not only ended the war, it handed several of

the dying Spanish empires remaining colonies to the US, including the more than 7,000

island archipelago in Southeast Asia known as the Philippines. But Filipinos didn't fight

alongside the Americans. Well, sort of alongside the Americans, to see their islands pass from

Spain to the United States. They rebelled in the name of an independent Philippines, and

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