The Philippines shares a long history with the United States. The islands became a U.S. colony at the end of the 19th century in the wake of the Spanish American War.

菲律宾和美国有很深的渊源，19世纪末随着美西战争的爆发成为了美国的殖民地。

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With the United States becoming a colonial power in the Pacific after its victory in the Spanish-American War, many American imperialists desired to extend U. S. economic expansion to China.

在美西战争中胜利之后，美国开始成为太平洋地区一只不可忽视的殖民力量，这时许多美国的帝国主义者都非常渴望美国的经济能向中国扩张。

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The hero of the story, the man who carried the message, was Colonel Andrew Summers Rowan, who, when the Spanish-American War broke out, was a young lieutenant in the United States Army.

故事中的英雄，就是安德鲁·罗文，一个送信人，美国陆军的一位年轻的中尉。当时美西战争爆发。

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An actor plays Spanish-American Admiral David Farrugut, a hero in the Battle of Mobile Bay during the American Civil War.

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And it nominated a hero of the Spanish-American War, New York Governor Theodore Roosevelt, as vice president.

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Two weeks after the Spanish-American War began, the Army sent a small force to Cuba.

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The first, at the University of Chicago in 1951, was a survey of American foreign policy since the Spanish-American War, and a running critique of the deleterious effect of domestic politics on international relations.

NEWYORKER: Getting Real

Their leader, Jessie Lee (Mario Van Peebles), fights in a black Army unit in the Spanish-American War until a cruel, capricious white officer (Billy Zane) pushes him to the breaking point.

NEWYORKER: Posse

It was first passed in 1898 as a luxury tax to fund the Spanish-American War.

FORBES: Phony Tax