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The Kiram–Bates Treaty, also known as the Bates Treaty, was a treaty signed by the United States and the Sultanate of Sulu during the Philippine–American War. The treaty functioned to prevent the entry of the Sulu Sultanate into the Philippine–American War while the United States concentrated its forces in northern Luzon.
- 20 August 1899
Dec 22, 2020 · As the Philippine-American War ravaged the country, the Americans grew weary of the Sultanate of Sulu, so they sat down with Kiram and negotiated what is now known as the Bates Treaty. The treaty was crafted by the Americans to keep the Sultanate of Sulu from entering the fray in the Philippine-American War.
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Today in Filipino history, August 20, 1899, an agreement was signed in Jolo between United States and the Sultan of Sulu. (Last updated about 1 month ago, posted under August Events, visited 27,403 times)
The treaty functioned to prevent the entry of the Sulu Sultanate into the Philippine–American War while the United States concentrated its forces in northern Luzon. Although it is referred to as a "treaty", it was titled an agreement, which was of lesser status under international practices as U.S. law did not require ratification of an ...
Aug 25, 2022 · Whereas Otis, whose headquarters were in Manila, had no first-hand contact with slave-owning Moros of the southern Philippines, his first envoy to the Sulu Sultanate, Brigadier-General John C. Bates, had some opportunity to study the social and political conditions of the country first-hand.
the abrogation of the Bates Agreement and other assurances of non-inter-ference by Americans. In this respect, the American policy toward the Muslims again resembled the treatment of the Indians: "treaties" made with "savages" were not considered binding and could be unilaterally
After close to six weeks in the Archipelago, Bates reported back to headquarters in Manila that slavery existed in ‘a very mild form’ in Sulu and that the word ‘retainer’ in fact better expressed the condition of those concerned than ‘slave’.
