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The nations you didn't learn about in high school.
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Philippines, Empire of the- The Emperor of the Philippines was named Florencio Entrencherado, a fish merchant from the central province of Iloilo on Panay. In 1925, he declared himself monarch of the archipelago. While his declaration was treated as a joke at first, within a year his stand against heaxy taxation and foreign interference had gained him thousands of peasant followers. In late 1926, he was brought to trial on a variety of charges. The presiding judge lost patience with the royal pomp which Florencio I insisted upon, and declared the Emperor insane.
An appeal to the Philippine Supreme Court failed, and a ship was sent in May of 1927 to bring Entrencherado to Manila. Armed followers of the Emperor staged an uprising, however, and burned land records and landowners' villas in several towns. Hundreds of Entrencheradistas protected the Emperor's compound with bolos, knives, and guns. Fortunately for everyone involved, the Philippine governor tactfully sent a team of officials to negotiate with Florencio on a diplomatic level. The Emperor quietly agreed to commitment at Manila, and died peacefully two years later. Entrencherado's followers, however, were tracked down and sentenced to long jail terms for their part in the uprising.
An appeal to the Philippine Supreme Court failed, and a ship was sent in May of 1927 to bring Entrencherado to Manila. Armed followers of the Emperor staged an uprising, however, and burned land records and landowners' villas in several towns. Hundreds of Entrencheradistas protected the Emperor's compound with bolos, knives, and guns. Fortunately for everyone involved, the Philippine governor tactfully sent a team of officials to negotiate with Florencio on a diplomatic level. The Emperor quietly agreed to commitment at Manila, and died peacefully two years later. Entrencherado's followers, however, were tracked down and sentenced to long jail terms for their part in the uprising.
Think more ppl. know the following:
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Negros Republic- During the last years of Spanish rule in the Philippines, the southern island of Negros became the center of a millenarian peasant movement led by Dionosio Sigobela. The wealthy landowners of Negros feared both Sigobela's followers and the disorder caused by the American invasion of 1898. They decided to take action to protect their plantations, and overthrew the Spanish governor in November of 1898. The next day, Negros was declared an independent republic, allied with Emilio Aguinaldo's Biaknabato. On February 2, 1899, American warships appeared off the coast of Negros. The President rushed to arrange a conference with the commanding officer, and happily ceded control when guarantees of property rights were made. By this time, the peasants were on the brink of rebellion against the patrician government. Several thousand guerrillas had joined Sigobela's movement. After the arrival of the Americans, Sigobela declared himself the head of the Revolutionary Government of Negros. He was forced to go underground by Captain John White, the American commander on Negros. White took pains to establish trust and respect between the U.S. administration and the peasants. As his appeal to the peasants was thus defused and a coordinated manhunt began, Sigobela finally acknowledged his defeat and surrendered in 1907.
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Biaknabato Republic- The Biaknabato Republic was established at Bulacan in the Philippines in November of 1897. Led by the Filipino patriot Emilio Aguinaldo, Biaknabato's army fought the Spanish to a stalemate. A truce required Aguinaldo to go into exile at Hong Kong. He returned amid the chaos of the Spanish-American War and declared the Philippines independent in May of 1898. However, he was declared an outlaw by William H. Taft, who was then merely governor of the Philippines. The subsequent guerrilla war cost over a million Filipino lives, ending when Aguinaldo swore loyalty to the United States.
Seems China did once annex the Philippines.
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Chinese Ceylon- In 1405, the Chinese Emperor Zhu Di sent a vast fleet to explore the Indian Ocean and assert his dominance there. The fleet consisted of over five hundred ships, and carried 28,000 troops. It explored the Indian coast and East Africa, bringing ostriches and giraffes back to China. A larger fleet would not sail until the First World War. The Admiral of the Treasure Fleet, as it was called, was Zheng He. Among such insignificant exploits as annexing the Phillipines for China, Zheng made contact with most of the monarchs along the Indian Ocean’s coast. Following a breach of protocol at the court of Ceylon’s dominant ruler in 1411, Zheng landed his troops, removed the king and installed his own candidate, declaring him a Chinese vassal and requiring him to send tribute to the Emperor. In 1459, a newly acceeded king of Ceylon repudiated the tribute to China. (Footnote: Chinese Ceylon - The Emperor of China later determined that since China was the richest and most civilized nation on Earth, maintaining the Treasure Fleet would be pointless. The ships were burned at anchor; after all, selling them raised the specter of the magnificent warships falling into pirate hands.)
i don't blame them though. the only filipino movies that i like a dolpy ones, and all the teleseryes are the same.