Word: skirmish
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...disturbance. During the governorship of Major-General Wood, Colonel Scott acted as chief of staff, and in 1903 went to the Philippines to become governor of the Sulu Archipelago. In this capacity he abolished slavery and the slave trade in the islands under his charge, and in a skirmish with the natives was severely wounded. On returning from the Philippines in 1907, he was appointed superintendent of the United States Military Academy with the rank of colonel. As an author Colonel Scott has been enabled from his intimate knowledge of the American Indians and their ways to write several monographs...
...Sociedad Espanola, Colonel Charles K. Darling, of the 6th Massachusetts, U. S. V., gave last night, in the Fogg Lecture Room, an illustrated lecture on "The Puerto Rican Campaign of the Spanish-American War in 1898." The lecturer described the landing of the troops on the Island and the skirmish which took place immediately afterwards. He then outlined the campaign that had been planned for the conquest of Puerto Rico and told of General Stone's march across the island. After narrating the progress of his own column from the coast village of Guanica, where the troops landed, to Utnado...