Raising the American flag over Fort Santiago, Manila, on the evening of August 13, 1898, signifying the start of the American rule in the Philippines. After the drawing by Peters.

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Raising the American flag over Fort Santiago, Manila, on the evening of August 13, 1898, signifying the start of the American rule in the Philippines. After the drawing by Peters. From Harper's Pictorial History of the War With Spain, published 1899.

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