In annexing the Philippines, this president said that "The march of events rules and overrules human action"
[DOC] [TLE] Treaty of Paris (1898) - Wikipedia [PAR] The Treaty of Paris of 1898 was an agreement made in 1898 that involved Spain 
relinquishing nearly all of the remaining Spanish Empire, especially Cuba, and 
ceding Puerto Rico, Guam, and the Philippines to the United States.