"for American energy to build up such a commercial marine on the Pacific Coast as should ultimately convert the Pacifi…"

""The fighting … was precipitated by … two native soldiers who refused to obey the order of a sentry who challenged th…"

"" About eight o’clock, Miller and I were cautiously pacing our district. We came to a fence and were trying to see wh…"

"The U.S. troops were "expecting trouble and were glad to have an opportunity to square accounts with the natives, who…"

"The slaughter at Manila was necessary, but not glorious. The entire American population justifies the conduct of its …"

""fighting, having begun, must go on to the grim end." --General Elwell S. Otis response when Emilio Aguinaldo tried t…"

"I personally strung up thirty-five Filipinos without trial, so what was all the fuss over Waller's "dispatching" a fe…"

"Major Edwin Glenn did not deny that he made forty-seven prisoners kneel and "repent of their sins" before ordering th…"

""Obtain information from natives no matter what measures have to be adopted."--General Adna Chaffee"

"And then I went to bed, and went to sleep, and slept soundly, and the next morning I sent for the chief engineer of t…"