U.S. Army Soldiers

Water Cure Torture Scandal - Senate Investigation Exposes Systematic Abuse

1902-01-01 00:00:00 +0000 UTC | Importance: 8/10

The Senate Committee on the Philippines embarks on a highly publicized investigation into “Affairs in the Philippine Islands” after letters from ordinary American soldiers in the Philippines surface in hometown newspapers containing graphic accounts of torture and atrocities. At the …

Theodore Roosevelt William Howard Taft Senate Committee on the Philippines Anti-imperialist Senators U.S. Army soldiers +1 more imperialism torture war-crimes accountability-crisis philippines +1 more

Embalmed Beef Scandal - War Profiteering and McKinley Administration Negligence

1898-05-01 00:00:00 +0000 UTC | Importance: 7/10

The Spanish-American War’s largest scandal erupts as U.S. Army soldiers receive widespread distribution of extremely low-quality, heavily adulterated beef products from Chicago meatpacking corporations. General Nelson Miles denounces the meat as “embalmed beef,” describing how …

Russell A. Alger William McKinley Armour & Co Swift & Co Morris & Co +2 more gilded-age corruption war-profiteering spanish-american-war corporate-negligence +1 more