Word: aguinaldo
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...dedicated to the military life. By now he wanted to be a civil engineer. But many of his comrades were re-enlisting for service in the Philippines. After four months, Krueger was back in the army as a private. Soon he was on his way to fight Emilio Aguinaldo's Insurrectos...
Sergeant's Surprise. With Company M of the 12th Infantry, Private Krueger took part in a 25-mile advance from Angeles to Tarlac, Aguinaldo's capital. But Aguinaldo had fled, and the 12th pursued him vainly all the way through Luzon's central plain to Dagupan on Lingayen Gulf. To the Madison Courier Krueger wrote excellent descriptions of the campaign, explaining: "Undoubtedly you see a good deal written about . . . the Philippines, but I thought, although many professors may have their theories about these islands, 'a fool here knows more than six wise men at home...
...size, in the long military experience of its leader and the great number of its troops, it dwarfs the forces of such historic guerrillas as the Tirolean patriot Andreas Hofer, the Philippines' Emilio Aguinaldo, and Mexico's Francisco "Pancho" ("I'll use the whole ocean to gargle") Villa...
...observers had feared (TIME, Jan. 12), 73-year-old Generalissimo Emilio Aguinaldo y Famy has indeed become "a sort of Philippine quisling." That was how Douglas MacArthur's defiant headquarters on Bataan Peninsula defined him. From Manila', one day last week, General Aguinaldo broadcast a demand that Douglas MacArthur surrender immediately. Said a War Department communique: "The appeal was ignored by General MacArthur...
Swart, small General Ricarte is a legend in the Philippines. As commander of the province of Cavite in 1898, he dubbed himself "The Viper," fought valiantly against the U.S. army of occupation. Generalissimo Aguinaldo finally took the oath of allegiance to the U.S., but not General Ricarte. He fled to Japan...