Talk:Battle of Manila (1898)

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were there 1,500 or 15,000 defenders?

To answer your question, 15,000 defenders. jasendorf

The photo which accompanies this article states that it is from 1899. The Battle of Manila occured in August of 1898.

[edit] Use of the term "insurgents"

I suspect that the original creator of this page relied on the one source listed for this terminology. I have gone through and replaced all instances of the term with Filipinos or something not as biased. BrokenSphere^{Msg me} 17:54, 28 August 2007 (UTC)