Remember the words of Voltaire who said anyone who can convince you of absurdities can get you to commit atrocities.

The Pulahans arose from a specific cauldron of local grievances, traditional values, and foreign interference that so often gives rise to millennial movements.

The story of the Pulahan War is a sad tale of exploitation visited on the poorest of the poor Filipinos, leading them down the rabbit hole of fanaticism.

The stories of these six regiments extend beyond the war in the Philippines.

I want to tell you that we are not bandits as the Americans have accused. but members of the revolutionary force that defended our mother country, the Philippines!

On May 6,1903, Makario Sakay proclaimed himself El Presidente Supremo of the Tagolog Republic of the Philippines.

The very idea of arming Filipinos and turning them loose in the countryside was utterly abhorrent to the American military brass.

These people are right and we are wrong...terribly wrong!

I hold Wallers actions in Samar as reprehensible, as egregious abuses of his constitutional privileges as a a military commander.

In the meantime, General Smiths combined Brigade was following his orders to turn Samar into a howling wilderness.