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Filipino people

The Filipino people or Filipinos are an Austronesian ethnic group native to the islands of the Philippines. There are about 92 million Filipinos in the Philippines, and about 11 million living outside the Philippines ....

Timeline of Events

1900

9.13.1900

Filipino resistance fighters defeat a small American column in the Battle of Pulang Lupa, during the Philippine-American War.

9.17.1900

Philippine-American War: Filipinos under Juan Cailles defeat Americans under Colonel Benjamin F. Cheatham at Mabitac.

1945

2.23.1945

World War II: The 11th Airborne Division, with Filipino guerrillas, free the captives of the Los Baños internment camp.