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I'll bet you're thinking of the later rebellion by the Philippinos. 
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And then the Phils declared independence, and then we -- who had just finished demonizing the Spanish as anti-democratic -- spent four years fighting a war to take that independence away from them again. Except that we won, the war was a lot like Vietnam, really -- complete with intense dissent at home (Twain's protest essays on the war are some of his best work).Originally posted by Zkribbler
We didn't invade the Philippines! We invaded Cuba. We just sunk the Spanish fleet in the Philippines.
"I have as much authority as the pope. I just don't have as many people who believe it." — George CarlinComment
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It's officially known to the U.S. military as the Philippine Insurrection.Christianity: The belief that a cosmic Jewish Zombie who was his own father can make you live forever if you symbolically eat his flesh and telepathically tell him you accept him as your master, so he can remove an evil force from your soul that is present in humanity because a rib-woman was convinced by a talking snake to eat from a magical tree...Comment
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Yep, and officially known to the Filipinos as the Philippine-American War. Just last week they celebrated Bonofacio Day, in honor of the war's greatest hero."I have as much authority as the pope. I just don't have as many people who believe it." — George CarlinComment
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