The primary SOURCE for this post was the book, 'Gangsters of Capitalism: Smedley Butler, the Marines, and the Making and Breaking of America's Empire' by Jonathan M. Katz
#MarchAcrossSamar
#PhilippinesIslands
#AmericanHistory
9/9
...the Filipinos from Waller’s expedition. Racist (Theodore) Roosevelt “told a crowd at Arlington National Cemetery on Memorial Day in 1902, that the “cruelties in the Philippines,” were “wholly exceptional” and “shamelessly exaggerated.”
#MarchAcrossSamar
#PhilippinesIslands
#AmericanHistory
7/9
...needlessly killed, not the brown people who worked for him. Waller was tried and [because he was a white man] acquitted of murdering the 11 Filipinos at court-martial. “Day claimed he was just following orders,” [sound familiar?] & was acquitted of murdering...
#MarchAcrossSamar
6/9
...an even-more-brutal precursor to the waterboarding – to force a porter into a vague, confused confession. Day shot the porter on the spot. Waller ordered the rest of the Filipinos in the party executed,” rather than admit his drunken white-man-ego had gotten 11 Marines...
#MarchAcrossSamar
5/9
By the time they were rescued (in Feb) “11 Marines died from exposure.” Because he was a white man, “Waller blamed the Filipinos.” Leading another entitled, White man (Lt John H. Day) to use “a new torture technique [he] learned from the Spanish – the ‘water cure,’
#MarchAcrossSamar
4/9
“Their maps fell apart, boots disintegrated. Skin sloughed off Marines’ feet, leaving open sores, leeches clung to their legs. They were running out of food, and it was too wet to light fires, rations ran to a single piece of raw bacon per man.”
#MarchAcrossSamar
#PhilippinesIslands
3/9
Because Waller was a colossal dumbass, the expedition took place during monsoon season.
Facts: Waller was warned about limited medical support available prior to departing, but he went anyway (dumbass). The expedition lasted until 2/26/1902 & the entire expedition got lost.
#MarchAcrossSamar
2/9
#OTD in #History 1901
Dec 08: The #MarchAcrossSamar Began
Context: During the American occupation of the Philippines, Maj Littleton ‘Butcher of Samar’ “Waller led 56 Marines, 2 Filipino scouts & 33 porters on an expedition to find a route bisecting the island,”
#PhilippinesIslands
1/9
The primary SOURCE for this post was the book, 'Gangsters of Capitalism: Smedley Butler, the Marines, and the Making and Breaking of America's Empire' by Jonathan M. Katz
#MarchAcrossSamar
ugly #AmericanHistory
#WhiteSupremacy bullshit
#Philippines
9/9
Racist (Theodore) Roosevelt “told a crowd at Arlington National Cemetery on Memorial Day in 1902, that the “cruelties in the Philippines,” were “wholly exceptional” and “shamelessly exaggerated.”
#MarchAcrossSamar
ugly #AmericanHistory
#WhiteSupremacy bullshit
#Philippines
7/9
“Day claimed he was just following orders,” [sound familiar?] and was acquitted of murdering the Filipinos from Waller’s expedition.
#MarchAcrossSamar
ugly #AmericanHistory
#WhiteSupremacy bullshit
#Philippines
6/9
Leading another entitled, White man (Lt John H. Day) to use “a new torture technique [he] learned from the Spanish – the ‘water cure,’ an even-more-brutal precursor to the waterboarding – to force a porter into a vague, confused confession. Day shot the porter on the spot."
#MarchAcrossSamar
4/9
They were running out of food and it was too wet to light fires, rations ran to a single piece of raw bacon per man.” By the time they were rescued, “ELEVEN Marines died from exposure.” Because he was a white man, “Waller blamed the Filipinos.”
#MarchAcrossSamar
ugly #AmericanHistory
3/9
Facts: The #MarchAcrossSamar lasted 'til 2/26/1902. Waller was warned about limited medical support, prior to departing, but he went anyway. The entire expedition got lost. “Maps fell apart, boots disintegrated. Skin sloughed off Marines’ feet, leaving open sores, leeches clung to their legs."
2/9
#OTD in #History 1901
Dec 08: The #MarchAcrossSamar Began
Context: During the American occupation of the Philippines, Major Littleton ‘Butcher of Samar’ “Waller led 56 Marines, 2 Filipino scouts & 33 porters on an expedition to find a route bisecting the island,”...
ugly #American History
1/9
