Hostilities break out on the night of…

Hostilities break out on the night of February 4, 1899, after two American privates on patrol kill three Filipino soldiers in a suburb of Manila.

Thus begins a war that will last for more than two years.

Some one hundred and twenty-six thousand American soldiers will be committed to the conflict; four thousand two hundred and thirty-four American and sixteen thousand Filipino soldiers, part of a nationwide guerrilla movement of indeterminate numbers, will die.