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The conflict in the Pacific was one-sided. At the declaration of war, Commodore Dewey, commander of America's Asiatic Squadron based in Hong Kong was ordered to race his six ships to the Philippines. He arrived at Manila Bay on May 1 and found the obsolete Spanish fleet anchored in the bay. It was a one-sided battle.
8 The Philippine-American War The Americans easily won a showdown against the Spanish fleet in Manila Harbor on May1, 1898. On that date, Commodore George Dewey directed an American fleet into the Har-bor, where he faced the Spanish naval presence.