Counterinsurgency

Balangiga Massacre Triggers Samar Pacification - Scorched Earth Retaliation

1901-09-28 00:00:00 +0000 UTC | Importance: 8/10

Filipino resistance fighters in Balangiga, Samar conduct a surprise attack on Company C of the U.S. 9th Infantry Regiment, killing 54 American soldiers in what becomes described as the “worst defeat of United States Army soldiers since the Battle of the Little Bighorn in 1876.” The …

Jacob H. Smith Littleton Waller Adna Chaffee Theodore Roosevelt Filipino civilians +1 more imperialism war-crimes military-atrocities philippines counterinsurgency +1 more

Philippine-American War Begins - Liberation Becomes Brutal Occupation

1899-02-04 00:00:00 +0000 UTC | Importance: 9/10

Fighting erupts between U.S. forces and Filipino independence fighters led by Emilio Aguinaldo, transforming America’s supposed “liberation” of the Philippines from Spain into a brutal three-year war of imperial conquest. The conflict begins just two days before the Senate ratifies …

Emilio Aguinaldo William McKinley U.S. Army forces Philippine independence movement Filipino civilians gilded-age imperialism war-crimes military-atrocities counterinsurgency +1 more