Remember the words of Voltaire who said "anyone who can convince you of absurdities can get you to commit atrocities."

235  The Forgotten  War  Part 24

The Pulahans arose from a specific cauldron of local grievances, traditional values, and foreign interference that so often gives rise to millennial movements.

234  The Forgotten War  Part 23

The story of the Pulahan War is a sad tale of exploitation visited on the poorest of the poor Filipinos, leading them down the rabbit hole of fanaticism
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The Forgotten War  Part 22

The stories of these six regiments extend beyond the war in the Philippines.

The Forgotten War  Part 21

"I want to tell you that we are not bandits as the Americans have accused. but members of the revolutionary force that defended our mother country, the Philippines!"

The Forgotten War  Part 20

On May 6,1903, Makario Sakay proclaimed himself El Presidente Supremo of the "Tagolog Republic of the Philippines."

The Forgotten War  Part 19

The very idea of arming Filipinos and turning them loose in the countryside was utterly abhorrent to the American military brass.

The Forgotten War  Part 18

"These people are right and we are wrong...terribly wrong!"

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I hold Waller's actions in Samar as reprehensible, as egregious abuses of his constitutional privileges as a a military commander.

227  The Forgotten War  Part 16

In the meantime, General Smith's combined Brigade was following his orders to turn Samar into a "howling wilderness."

226  The Forgotten War  Part 15

As the now infamous town of Balangiga burned behind him, Capt. Bookmiller famously quoted the book of Hosea: "They have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind!"

225  The Forgotten War  Part 14

No matter what you call it, the event at Balangiga was the worst defeat of American troops since the Battle of the Little Big Horn!

224  The Forgotten War  Part 13

Funston, four other Americans, and a renegade Spaniard would pose as POWs in the "custody" of a group of Macabebe Scouts in captured Insurrecto uniforms.

223  The Forgotten War  Part 12

"To see nine men, the officers in their drawers and the privates naked, cross such a stream by such means, and drive off an entrenched force not less than ten times their number, in broad daylight, where their number must soon become known, is something not soon to be forgotten!"

222  The Forgotten War  Part 11

I find the story of David Fagen fascinating.  We seldom rationally depict such figures in history.

221  The Forgotten War  Part 10

The leaders of the Philippine independence movement had tremendous admiration for the American founding fathers and the government they wrought!

220  The Forgotten War  Part 9

The depth and breadth, the sheer comprehensiveness of Filipino martial technology stands as a shining example, a tribute to defiance in the face of tyranny and oppression!

219  The Forgotten War  Part 8

But it turns out that the Filipino people didn't WANT themselves and their property to be the property of the United States!

218  The Forgotten War  Part 7

On June 12, 1898, the Filipino rebels officially declared independence from Spain, in a document that, ironically, in light of what was to come, drew elements from the American Declaration of Independence.

217  The Forgotten War  Part 6

Pershing was an instructor at West Point when the war broke out, and quickly sought to rejoin his old unit, the Buffalo Soldiers of the 10th Cavalry.

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