The Little Brown Brother

Leon Wolff tells the full story, revealing how and why the U.S. went from aiding Filipino independence to forcefully annexing the islands for themselves.

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First published in 1960, Little Brown Brother won the Francis Parkman Prize from the Society of American Historians in 1962 as the book which "best combined serious historical scholarship and literary distinction." Available again, this book looks at a long history of Filipino struggle for independence. When the Spanish-American war broke out in 1898, the Philippines--a colony of Spain for nearly four centuries--was already in revolt against colonial rule, and its fight for freedom almost won. A vivid and closely documented narrative, this book looks at Philippine resistance to Spanish and American attempts at colonization, focusing particularly on the Philippine Insurrection in 1899 which killed 225,000 Filipinos.

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1908 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER XV The sun was already setting when Cochrane's force filed out of the jungle on to the beach just below Oras. The march had been a long and weary one, unmarked by any special incident, though at every stage boudjons had boomed out with maddening regularity. "Oras was a big place of some ten thousand people," remarked the captain. "You will see in a moment how much of it the pulajanes left. That's Coote's camp, in the old court-house.--Halt!--Lend me your glasses, Mr. North. We must go carefully, or they may shoot at us. There are a lot of them round the gateway, playing cards or something, but I don't see a sentry. Ah, there he is, on that bit of a platform--with a chair to sit on! He's smoking, too, I think, and hasn't seen us yet.--Now he has. --Bugler.--Lie down, men, lie down," he shouted suddenly, as a bullet whistled overhead. "They are all scurrying in. We shall have a volley next, before we know where we are. I'll flag them," and he jumped on to a small mound, waving his handkerchief vigorously, just as a ragged volley squibbed out from the building. Fortunately, however, the shooting was very wild, and a moment later the " Cease fire " on a bugle showed that his signal had been seen. He turned to Derek with a wry smile. "It's a good beginning. They are fairly rattled already. We shall have a lively trip. Neither Coote nor I can command the other, as we belong to entirely different services, and, even if we don't squabble, our soldiers will do so all the time;" then he ordered the men to fall in again, and strode at their head towards the Scouts' quarters. Three white men came forward to meet them, two in regulation field kit, the other, a short, powerfully-built youngster, in a white canvas shirt and corduroy breeches, ...

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