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  1. The Battle of Mindanao ( Filipino: Labanan sa Mindanao; Cebuano: Gubat sa Mindanao; Japanese: ミンダナオの戦い) was fought by the Americans and allied Filipino guerrillas against the Japanese forces on the island of Mindanao in the Philippines as part of Operation VICTOR V. It was part of the campaign to liberate the Philippines during ...

    • 10 March-15 August 1945
    • Allied victory
    • Mindanao Island, Philippines
  2. United States. Moro Wars, (1901–13), in Philippine history, a series of scattered campaigns involving American troops and Muslim bands on Mindanao, Philippines. The Moro fought for religious rather than political reasons, and their actions were unconnected with those of the Filipino revolutionaries who conducted the Philippine-American War ...

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  3. The Moro Rebellion (1902–1913) was an armed conflict between the Moro people and the United States military during the Philippine–American War.The rebellion occurred after the conclusion of the conflict between the United States and First Philippine Republic, and saw the U.S. move to impose its authority over the Muslim states in Mindanao, Jolo and the neighboring Sulu Archipelago.

  4. The Spanish initiated the conflict by conquering the Philippines and invading Moro territory in an effort to subjugate the region to their rule in the 1500s. When the Spanish conquered the Islamic Kingdom of Maynila, a vassal of the Sultanate of Brunei, the Islamic rajah, Rajah Sulayman resisted the Spanish.

    • 1565-1898 (333 years)
    • Zamboanga, Sulu, Mindanao, Visayas, Palawan
  5. Jun 1, 2006 · On Negros were about 3,000 troops under the command of Col. Roger B. Hilsman, who had led the force opposing the Japanese landing at Davao. Leyte and Samar were held by a hastily improvised force of 2,500 men led by Col. Theodore M. Cornell, and Bohol by about 1,000 men under Lt. Col. Arthur J. Grimes. 10.

  6. Sep 28, 2017 · For some six centuries the Muslim Moros of Mindanao had farmed, fished and fought—battling Christian Filipinos, the Spanish and each other with equal fervor. An insular cultural and religious minority disliked and mistrusted by the majority Christian populace, they lived within the hundreds of independent rancherias ruled by the datus.

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  8. Jun 7, 2022 · Mindanao was the last part of the Philippines liberated by US forces who had to battle with the help of Moro resistance forces against 40,000 Japanese forces who were ordered to fight to the death. Mohammad Adil was in the thick of the fighting there, assigned to guide American soldiers in “territory he knew well”.

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