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3 days ago · Dewey, who had been the Republican nominee in 1944, was regarded as the frontrunner when the primaries began. Dewey was the acknowledged leader of the Republican Party's Eastern Establishment. In 1946 he had been re-elected governor of New York by the largest margin in state history.
4 days ago · A well-known public intellectual, he was a major voice of progressive education and liberalism. [13] [14] While a professor at the University of Chicago, he founded the University of Chicago Laboratory Schools, where he was able to apply and test his progressive ideas on pedagogical method.
Jun 13, 2024 · From Admiral George Dewey's legendary naval victory in Manila Bay to the Rough Riders' heroic charge up San Juan Hill, from Roosevelt's rise to the presidency amid national tragedy, to charges of U.S. military misconduct and torture in the Philippines, this work captures America's exuberant and at times painful coming of age in an ...
- Chris Ellis
- 2020
Jun 9, 2024 · The navy, under Admiral George Dewey’s command, easily broke Spanish control of the Philippine Islands in an engagement at Manila Bay on May 1. American attention then turned to the liberation of Cuba.
Jun 11, 2024 · The United States Navy Commodore, George Dewey, was invited to the event, but he declined to attend. The Philippine Declaration of Independence on June 12, 1898, in Spanish. Image: Wikipedia. The second period was the defeat of the Filipinos during the Philippine-American War.
1 day ago · According to Aguinaldo, Pratt had communicated with Commodore George Dewey (commander of the Asiatic Squadron of the United States Navy) by telegram and passed assurances from Dewey to Aguinaldo that the United States would recognize the independence of the Philippines.
Jun 12, 2024 · There is a depiction of a train that took Aguinaldo from Biak-na-Bato to Pangasinan where he boarded a steamer to exile in Hong Kong, then there is another window with Dewey’s flagship “Olympia.”
