Shortly afterward, Commodore George Dewey returned the exiled Filipino revolutionary Emilio Aguinaldo to the islands.

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True, the United States Navy under Admiral George Dewey had ousted Spain from the Philippines in the Spanish-American War of 1898.

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In the first significant action, on May 1st, Commodore George Dewey's small squadron destroyed an antiquated Spanish fleet in a morning's shelling in Manila Bay, in the distant Philippines.

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In fact, these guns were salvaged from the bottom of far-away Manila Bay, from Spanish ships sunk by Montpelier's own Admiral George Dewey on the day America came of age as an international power.

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And in his teachings and writings, Dr. Barnes drew on his scientific background (as well as the writings of Henry James, John Dewey and George Santayana) to bring a new rigor to the criticism of art, replacing approaches he found intellectually flabby or simply beside the point.

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It is an intellectual history, too, paying as much attention to thinkers such as John Dewey, Walter Lippmann, Reinhold Niebuhr and George Kennan, whose arguments shaped the decisions of presidents, as to the doings of the presidents themselves.

ECONOMIST: 20th-century America