By the end of July 1898, 13,000 U.S. Volunteers and 2,000 regular troops arrived totake control of the Philippines from the Spanish as part of the Spanish-American War. Together with the Filipino revolutionary army, numbering about 13,000, they faced off against 13,000 Spaniards in Manila. The Americans and the Filipinos shared the common goal of defeating Spain, but afterwards the Filipinos wanted independence, while the U.S. wanted the Philippines as a territory. It was a difference bound to lead to conflict.