A Traitor’s execution - A Spanish-American war TL

[kasumigenx]

A Traitor’s execution

A Traitor’s execution

On April 25, 1898 the Spanish–American War began. While the war mostly focused on Cuba, the United States Navy's Asiatic Squadron was in Hong Kong, and commanded by Commodore George Dewey, it sailed for the Philippines. On May 1, 1898, in the Battle of Manila Bay, the squadron engaged attacked and destroyed the Spanish army & navy's Pacific Squadron and proceeded to blockade Manila. Several days later, Dewey agreed to transport Aguinaldo from Hong Kong to the Philippines aboard the USS McCulloch, which left Hong Kong with Aguinaldo on 16 May. arriving in Cavite on 19 May. Aguinaldo promptly attempted to resume command of revolutionary forces but was arrested by the supporters of the dead hero, Andres Bonifacio due to selling the revolution in the pact of Biak na Bato[1].

On July 10, 1898, Emilio Aguinaldo was executed on the command of the supporters of Bonifacio and Gen. Makabulos was pressured to carry out the arrest and execution instead of having him exiled again.

The result of this was the increased morale of the revolution and the people would not switch over to the Americans and the American’s position on the islands would falter but the Spanish rule on the Northern part of the Philippines was already doomed.


1. The P.O.D.

 

[kasumigenx]

Start of the End

On August 5, on instructions from Spain, Governor General Basilo Augistin turned over command of the Philippines to his deputy, Fermin Jaudenes. On August 13, with American commanders unaware that a cease-fire had been signed between Spain and the U.S. on the previous day in Washington D.C., American forces captured the city of Manila from the Spanish in the Battle of Manila.


The U.S. had sent a force of some 11,000 ground troops to the Philippines. On August 14, 1899, Spanish Captain-General Jaudenes formally capitulated and U.S. General Merritt formally accepted the surrender and declared the establishment of a U.S. military government in occupation in Manila, on this time the Spanish military forces had already been kicked out of Luzon although Manila has already been controlled by the Americans.

During this time the Peninsulares and the Supporters of the Spanish in the would start to be mass murdered or expelled by the revolutionaries, similar to that of Haiti when they killed the French in Haiti.

 

[Kurt_Steiner]

Interesting.

 

[kasumigenx]

Interesting.

Thanks.

 

[kasumigenx]

Treaty of Paris


The Treaty of Paris provided that Cuba would become independent from Spain but the U.S. Congress made sure it would be under indirect U.S. control through the Platt Amendment. Specifically, Spain relinquished all claim of sovereignty over and title to Cuba. Upon Spain's departure from Cuba, it was to be occupied by the United States, and the United States would assume and discharge any obligations that under international law could result from the fact of its occupation.


The Treaty also assured that Spain would cede to the United States the island of Puerto Rico and other islands then under Spanish sovereignty in the West Indies, as well as the island of Guam in the Marianas Islands.


The Treaty specified that Spain would cede to the United States the archipelago of the Philippine Islands, and comprehending the islands lying within a specified line.


In accordance with the treaty, Spain:


Gave up all rights to Cuba (see Teller Amendment and Platt Amendment).

Surrendered Puerto Rico and gave up its possessions in the West Indies.

Surrendered the island of Guam to the United States.

Surrendered Luzon(The territory of Tagalog Republic) to the United States.

Surrendered Carolines to the United States.

Surrendered Palau to the United States.

Surrendered Marianas to the United States.


Specifics of the cession in the Philippines were later clarified by the 1900 Treaty of Washington.


The Spanish would retain control of the Island groups of Mindanao, Visayas and Palawan although Calamian and Mindoro were part of the Cession to the Americans and Tagalog republic and the U.S. would make both Cuba and Tagalog republic as protectorates.


Note
Many of the Pretexts to the WWII were avoided in the T.L.

 

[EddyBoulevard]

Start of the End

During this time the Peninsulares and the Supporters of the Spanish in the would start to be mass murdered or expelled by the revolutionaries, similar to that of Haiti when they killed the French in Haiti.

As a Half-Filipino with Spanish ancestry, it's very heartbreaking to hear them getting murdered

 

[kasumigenx]

As a Half-Filipino with Spanish ancestry, it's very heartbreaking to hear them getting murdered

Yes, that almost happened but the Americans intervened so that did not happened and instead the Americans and their collaborators killed some natives instead so there was a trade off...so both the current and this scenario are bad and we will likely see the Tagalog republic end up as a rouge republic like Burma/Myanmar or Laos but Visayas and Mindanao will flourish under Spanish rule for more decades.

 

[kasumigenx]

The Former Archipelagic Colony divided

On the north the Tagalog Republic would have an initial harsh rule and the people were xenophobic and the Catholic Clergy and the Americans would have been the source of Charity and Support and the government led by Gen. Makabulos who is forming the government would have been the President and given the task to Miguel Malvar on 1903, the common language would be the language near Manila which is a Pidginized form of Tagalog which is the lingua franca of the people in Luzon due to it being the language of trade in Luzon due to it being the language of Manila and they would have a bad reputation to the outside world due to murdering and expelling colonists, the US would have gained control of the islands that the Spanish once owned in the Pacific as well.


Due to the Philippine revolts and its intensity made it more compelling that the Americans have a non-interventionist and alliance with the Tagalog republic as suggested by the Anti-Imperialist league as the Tagalog republic has proved its own unity and dignity against the Spanish colonizers


In the South the Spanish would have loyalists and easily destroyed the Visayan Independentist republics and welcomed immigrants from the North being expelled by the Tagalog republic but Mindanao would not be conquered as the Muslims, Christians and Pagans united under one banner, the Muslim Maguindanao Sultanate and the Republic of Zamboanga would ally and share power with each other while the Sulu Sultanate would be independent and in the end the only area that the Spanish would retain by 1903 would be Visayas where the Spanish started their colonization and the Spanish would have retained Palawan as well, however the Spanish would treacherously sell Mindanao and Sulu to the Germans in 1903.

 

[kasumigenx]

Conquest of Mindanao by Germans

On 1903, the Germans would begin to conquer Mindanao, the act was treated by the Republic of Zamboanga and the Mindanao Sultanates as an act of Betrayal by the Spanish, the Germans with the help of the Spanish would conquer Zamboanga and the rest of the Mindanao, a process that ended in 1910, that was a gruesome conquest with gruesome consequences in Mindanao as many Visayan settlers were settled in German Mindanao after the war which declined in 1920 when the British acquired the German Mindanao as a settlement for WWI.

 

[kasumigenx]

Visayan Deuterium

The Spanish would be burdened by their ownership of Visayas in the East as their last hold out in the Spanish East Indies and maintaining Visayas would have worked wonders with the Spanish as the East of Leyte and the seas near Mindanao were filled with Deuterium which would have enriched the Spanish economy another that would cause the Spanish to recover was the resources or gold in Palawan which was discovered a few decades after Spain lost territories to the American protectorate Tagalog Republic and German and later British Mindanao.

 

[kasumigenx]

Versailles Butterflies

Territorial Changes of the Treaty of Versailles

The treaty stripped Germany of 25,000 square miles (65,000 km2) of territory and 7 million people. It also required Germany to give up the gains made via the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk and grant independence to the protectorates that had been established. In Western Europe Germany was required to recognize Belgian sovereignty over Moresnet and cede control of the Eupen-Malmedy area. Within six months of the transfer, Belgium was required to conduct a plebiscite on whether the citizens of the region wanted to remain under Belgian sovereignty or return to German control, communicate the results to the League of Nations and abide by the League's decision. To compensate for the destruction of French coal mines, Germany was to cede the output of the Saar coalmines to France and control of the Saar to the League of Nations for 15 years; a plebiscite would then be held to decide sovereignty. The treaty "restored" the provinces of Alsace-Lorraine to France by rescinding the treaties of Versailles and Frankfurt of 1871 as they pertained to this issue. The sovereignty of Schleswig-Holstein was to be resolved by a plebiscite to be held at a future time.


In Central Europe Germany was to recognize the independence of Czechoslovakia and cede the province of Upper Silesia. Germany had to recognize the independence of Poland and renounce "all rights and title over the territory". Upper Silesia was to be ceded to Poland. The border would be fixed with regard to the vote and to the geographical and economic conditions of each locality. The province of Posen (now Poznań), which had come under Polish control during the Greater Poland Uprising, was also to be ceded to Poland. Pomerelia (Eastern Pomerania) including Danzig, on historical and ethnic grounds, was transferred to Poland.


Article 119 of the treaty required Germany to renounce sovereignty over former colonies and Article 22 converted the territories into League of Nations mandates under the control of Allied states. Togoland and German Kamerun (Cameroon) were transferred to France. Ruanda and Urundi were allocated to Belgium, whereas German South-West Africa went to South Africa and the United Kingdom obtained German East Africa. As compensation for the German invasion of Portuguese Africa, Portugal was granted the Kionga Triangle, a sliver of German East Africa in northern Mozambique. Article 156 of the treaty transferred German concessions in Shandong, China to Japan not to China. Australia was granted all German possessions in the Pacific, except for German Samoa, which was taken by New Zealand and German Mindanao which was ceded to Britain as a separate colony.


Consequences of the treaty in Europe

Due to the Changes of territory in Poland and Germany the Poles in Lower Silesia and Outer Posen were exchanged with the Germans from Pomerellia, Upper Silesia and Pomerelia starting in 1921 until 1930 preventing another war between Germany and Poland to happen, Poland would get Czechoslovak controlled parts of Cieszyn Silesia and Germany would regain Sudety Land from Czechoslovakia in a minor war in 1930.