When the Murata rifle was equipped and sold to the Philippines from Japan and used by the Katipunero forces from 1896 to 1897 via arms smuggling[6] and later the Filipino troops under the Philippine Revolutionary Army was fought against the Spanish Colonial forces during the Philippine Revolution of 1896 to 1898 and the Spanish–American War of 1898 and among the battle against the American colonial forces during the Philippine–American War of 1899 to 1901.