US general, vexed by the difficulty of separating enemy soldiers from the native population as the war dragged on, wrote in 1901 that "the problem here is more difficult on account of the inbred treachery of these people, their great number, and the impossibility... Annual Reports of the Secretary of War - Page 34by United States. War Department - 1901Full view - About this book
| Philippine Information Society - Philippines - 1901 - 794 pages
...Difficulties Greater than in Indian Warfare. "I have been in Indian campaigns when it took over one hundred soldiers to capture each Indian ; but the problem...impossibility of recognizing the actively bad from those only passively so. If it was deemed advisable to pursue the methods of European nations in arms... | |
| Philippines - 1901 - 888 pages
...Difficulties Greater than in Indian Warfare. "I have been in Indian campaigns when it took over one hundred soldiers to capture each Indian ; but the problem...impossibility of recognizing the actively bad from those only passively so. If it was deemed advisable to pursue the methods of European nations in arms... | |
| United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Philippines - Philippines - 1902 - 1210 pages
...Lieutenant-General Commanding the Army, 1901, pp. 34, 35.] I have been in Indian campaigns where it took over 100 soldiers to capture each Indian, but the problem here...recognizing the actively bad from the only passively so. If it was deemed advisable to pursue the methods of European nations and armies in suppressing rebellions... | |
| Richard Drinnon - Social Science - 1997 - 614 pages
...took over 100 soldiers to capture each Indian," reported Brigadier General J. Franklin Bell in 1901, "but the problem here is more difficult on account...recognizing the actively bad from the only passively so." Or as Major General Lloyd Wheaton reported from Luzon on June 30, 1901: "Unexampled patience was exercised... | |
| Michael L. Krenn - History - 1998 - 364 pages
...difficulty of separating enemy soldiers from the native population as the war dragged on, wrote in 1901 that "the problem here is more difficult on account of...recognizing the actively bad from the only passively so" — words very similar to those used to justify the incarceration of Japanese-Americans in 1942. Theodore... | |
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