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The marriage did not last long and soon the couple divorced. She briefly returned to Portland. Before the beginning of the war, Claire, now Claire Fuentes, returned to the Philippines and was singing in a night club in Manila where she met her future second husband, Sgt. John V. Phillips of the 31st Infantry Regiment. After the bombing of Pearl ...
After the end of World War II, 50,000 to 100,000 women from East Asia were married to American soldiers, and in total it is estimated that 200,000 Asian women migrated from Philippines, Japan and South Korea between 1945 and 1965.
Born in Pototan, Iloilo, Philippines, she retired from education and became a housewife shortly after her marriage to Alejandro Balderas, a wealthy landowner from Sara, Iloilo. [1] When the 1896 Philippine Revolution against Spain broke out, she became one of only a few women to join the Panay -based Visayan arm of the Katipunan , the initially ...
Dogeaters is a novel written by Jessica Hagedorn and published in 1990. Hagedorn also adapted her novel into a play by the same name. [1] Dogeaters, set in the late 1950s in Manila (the capital of the Philippines), addresses several social, political and cultural issues present in the Philippines during the 1950s.
The Philippine–American War, [13] known alternatively as the Philippine Insurrection, Filipino–American War, [b] or Tagalog Insurgency, [14] [15] [16] emerged following the conclusion of the Spanish–American War in December 1898 when the United States annexed the Philippine Islands under the Treaty of Paris.
Philippine–American War; Philippine–American War February 4, 1899 – July 2, 1902 Moro Rebellion: 1899-1913 ... Philippine History. Manila: Rex Book Store.
Gabriela Silang was born in barrio Caniogan, Santa, Ilocos to a Spanish Ilocano father named Anselmo Cariño, [1] a trader who ferried his wares from Vigan to Abra along the Abra River and a descendant of Ignacio Cariño, the first Galician from Spain to arrive in Candon in the late 17th century.
Nieves Fernandez (born circa 1906) was a Filipino guerrilla leader in Tacloban City, during World War II. [2] [3]Before the war, Fernandez worked as a school teacher. When the Imperial Japanese began occupying the Philippine Islands, including her hometown of Tacloban, Fernandez organized a resistance movement that numbered around 110 fighters. [4]