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  explosion of maine
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  1st battle with Spain in the Phillippines
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  U.S. troops fire the first shots of the war , killing 3 Filiopino soilders causing a fight to break out and Filopino independence forces.
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  Filiopinos switch from conventional to guerilla war
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  Mark Twain publishes " To the person sitting in the Darkness "
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  Republican Henry conducts hearing about the war
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  president roosevelt declares victory in the Philppines but guerilla war contiunes to 1915