Honor for the Flag: The Battle of Bud Dajo - 1906 & The Moro

Honor for the Flag: The Battle of Bud Dajo - 1906 & The Moro Massacre

The Battle of Bud Dajo took place March 5-8, 1906. It pitted the U.S. Army. U.S. Navy, and the Philippine Constabulary against 800-1,000 dissident Muslims who had fortified the top of a rugged, 2,175 feet high dormant volcano on the island of Jolo in the southern Philippine Islands. Although beginning as a genuine military contest, it ended as a tragic and terrible, one-sided massacre, with no more than a small and pitiful handful of the Muslims left alive. Although lesser known. It ranks beside such infamous names as â€œSand Creekâ€ (1864), Wounded Kneeâ€ (1890), and â€œMy Laiâ€ (1968) as one of the darkest, bloodiest, and most controversial episodes in Americaâ€™s long and troubled history of deadly encounters with indigenous peoples. More than just a straightforward account of an epic fight on a spectacular mountain, it is also the story of a second and equally vicious donnybrook within the nationsâ€™ press and on the floor of Congress to comprehend what had actually occurred on that remote field of battle and why. At stake were the careers of the nationâ€™s most well known soldier, General Leonard Wood, and a future President and Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, William Howard Taft, as well as the reputation of one of the nationâ€™s most popular Presidents, Theodore Roosevelt. But there is also a mystery here. The real story of what happened would remain buried for more than another century. Why? Was there a deliberate, and successful, cover up? If the real facts had come to light sooner, would it have mattered? Could it have impacted the course of American history? Is there a lesson to take away here, or at least a warning?

Country	USA
Author	Robert A. Fulton
Binding	Paperback
EAN	9780979517327
ISBN	097951732X
Label	Tumalo Creek Press
Manufacturer	Tumalo Creek Press
NumberOfPages	200
PublicationDate	2011-12-15
Publisher	Tumalo Creek Press
Studio	Tumalo Creek Press
ReleaseDate	0000-00-00

Honor for the Flag: The Battle of Bud Dajo - 1906 & The Moro Massacre