TODAY is the 126th anniversary of the signing of the Treaty of Paris, ceding the Philippines by Spain to the United States, which happened on Dec. 10, 1898. Supposedly, this treaty wouldn't have mattered because we were already establishing our own government through the Philippine Congress at Malolos and were already writing our own constitution.
TODAY is the 126th anniversary of the signing of the Treaty of Paris, ceding the Philippines by Spain to the United States, which happened on Dec. 10, 1898. Supposedly, this treaty wouldn't have mattered because we were already establishing our own government through the Philippine Congress at Malolos and were already writing our own constitution. But I guess superpower moves.
But this map is interesting because, according to Justice Carpio, it had two fundamental flaws: One, it omitted Scarborough Shoal and many islands in the Spratlys, which had always been part of Philippine territory in previous official maps of the Spaniards: in the 1734 Murillo Velarde map, the 1808 'Carta General del Archipielago Filipino' and the 1875 'Carta General del Archipielago Filipino,' which is the most complete detailed map of our territory during the Spanish colonial...
That Symbolizes Our Occupation
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