The Philippine–American War (1899–1902) was an armed conflict between the United States and Filipino revolutionaries. (Image: Private William W. Grayson (1876-1941) of the First Nebraska Volunteers fired the shot that started the Filipino-American War.) The conflict arose from the struggle of the First Philippine Republic to secure independence from the United States following the latter's ...
War Brides= War bride is a term used in reference to wartime marriages between soldiers and foreigners, especially–but not exclusively–during World War I and World War II.One of the largest and best documented war bride phenomenons is American soldiers marrying German "Fräuleins" after World War II. By 1949, over 20,000 German war brides had emigrated to the US.[1] Furthermore, it is estimated ...