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...north in Bulacan Province, the U.S. flag was hauled down, immediate Philippine "independence" declared, a short-lived socialistic government set up. Sporadic sniping at constabulary detachments popped throughout three provinces of central Luzon. And at Cabuyao, on the main south road between Manila and the great U.S.-owned Calamba sugar estates, actual battle was pitched. Under a woman named Salud Argrave, several hundred Cabuyao rebels took over the town, seized the weapons of six visiting U.S. sailors, fought off local police. Then 35 constabulary officers arrived and the one-sided slaughter began. Fifty-two insurgents lay dead by the time...
...associated with the fact that when a piece of artillery hits a soldier it automatically eliminates him from the battle. After Cadet Summerall won his Phi Beta Kappa Key at West Point, the fact was noted when his guns blasted the Philippine insurrectos out of the village of Calamba in 1898, when he smote down four gates of Peking at the time of the Boxer massacres. Later he entered the World War a Colonel, came out a Major General. At Soissons. St. Mihiel, and in the Meuse-Argonne he commanded brilliantly the First Division, never admitting that it could...
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