1901 September 29: The United States Navy Bombed Balangiga
Context: After the very mis-named #BalangigaMassacre, the United States Military felt justified in trying to destroy the entire village where they had enslaved one-hundred-forty-nine men.
#PhilippineIslands
#AmericanHIstory

1/2

To review, he said this AFTER two very rapey, drunken soldiers go their asses kicked for threatening to abduct a woman from a village and 149 adult males were enslaved for it. The ego on this fuck!
#BalangigaMassacre
#PhilippineIslands
ugly #AmericanHistory

7/8

General Adna R. Chaffee believed (because he was a racist) the revolt proved his tactics were necessary rather than recognizing them as the impetus of the violence.
#BalangigaMassacre
#PhilippineIslands
ugly #AmericanHistory

5/8

The captives’ living conditions were inhumane and degrading. When they’d had enough and retaliated for the abuses (with the help of an actual insurgent) they killed (and rightly so) forty-eight American occupying soldiers.
#BalangigaMassacre
#PhilippineIslands
ugly #AmericanHistory

2/8

#OTD in #Hisotry 1901

September 28: The (Mis-named) #BalangigaMassacre
Context: 149 Samareños, who had been detained and forced into hard labor in Balangiga after two American soldiers were beaten to a pulp for threatening to abduct a woman from the village.
#PhilippineIslands
#AmericanHistory

1/8

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
#BalangigaMassacre
#PhilippineIslands
ugly #AmericanHistory
#WhiteSupremacy bullshit

3/3

2008: somewhere along the national highway near Dagupan.

2008: Poblatin Beach during a storm.

2008: Farmers working in the rice paddies.

2011: A view of Agno beach from above, along the dirt road.

Some more photos.

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#nostalgia #growingup #childhoodmemories #philippineislands #luzonphotoset #breachesandcountryside #farmlife #photography

USGS ShakeMap Intensity Map

🔴 UPDATE: M6.3 mww earthquake, east of the Philippine Islands, depth 10.0 km

🟢 PAGER Alert Level: GREEN
🔍 Felt by 9 people with intensity III.

earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us...

#UPDATE #USGS #earthquake #Philippineislands

🔴 INITIAL ALERT: Magnitude 6.3 mww earthquake detected at 24 Jun 2025 01:58:06 UTC, depth 10.0 km.

Location: east of the Philippine Islands

Full information to follow. earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us...

#USGS #earthquake #Philippineislands

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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
#SpanishAmericanWar
#WhiteSupremacy
#PhilippineIslands

11/11

“As many American thinkers & officials saw it, most people on their own continent did not deserve full rights, much less bronze-skinned islanders on a distant archipelago.”
#SpanishAmericanWar
#WhiteSupremacy
#PhilippineIslands

10/11

...annexing the Philippines would mean ‘another million and a half of negros, ten million Malays, Negritos, Japanese, and Chinese, to say nothing of the hundreds of thousands of mongrels of Spanish blood,’ joining the republic.'"
#SpanishAmericanWar
#WhiteSupremacy
#PhilippineIslands

6/11

In an attempt to prevent the annexation of the #PhilippineIslands, “absurdly racist Senator Benjamin Tilman – a 1-eyed ex-Confederate who’d overseen a surge in lynching as governor of South Carolina & called for exterminating all Black people who did not submit to white rule – warned that..."

5/11

"But the Philippines would be the most daunting” acquisition of the #SpanishAmericanWar. SOURCE: Gangsters of Capitalism: Smedley Butler, the Marines, and the Making and Breaking of America's Empireby Jonathan M. Katz
#AmericanHistory
#PhilippineIslands

4/11

...Commodore George Dewey of the U.S. Asiatic Squadron in Hong Kong, ‘captured, burned, or sunk nearly the entire Spanish Pacific fleet in Manila Bay in just six hours.’
#SpanishAmericanWar
#AmericanHistory
#PhilippineIslands

2/11

#OTD in #History 1898

May 06: Spanish Pacific Fleet is Decimated in Manila Bay
Context: Manila Bay was a major engagement of the #SpanishAmericanWar.
Facts: 6 days after declaring war on Spain in response the mysterious sinking of the USS Maine in Havana harbor...
#PhilippineIslands

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