{"id":4641,"date":"2016-10-05T18:37:49","date_gmt":"2016-10-05T18:37:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/?p=4641"},"modified":"2018-03-19T02:27:59","modified_gmt":"2018-03-18T15:27:59","slug":"100-years-ago-in-philippine-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/?p=4641","title":{"rendered":"100 years ago in Philippine History"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">On March 7, 1906<\/span><\/strong>, US troops under the command of Major General Leonard Wood massacred as many as 1,000 Filipino Muslims, known as Moros, who were taking refuge at Bud Dajo, a volcanic crater on the island of Jolo in the southern Philippines. Above, US soldiers pose for the camera in the aftermath of the massacre.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Robert Fulton says two-thirds of the Tausugs killed were women and children, mostly members of the warriors\u2019 families and many of whom also fought the colonizers.<\/p>\n<p>Although the Tausug had an excellent defensive position, the ten-to-one firepower advantage enjoyed by the Americans made the battle extremely lopsided.<\/p>\n<p>The Tausug also call the incident \u201cThe Battle of the Clouds\u201d by the Tausug for the mists that often shroud the mountain peak.<\/p>\n<p>It is interesting to note that there is a major road in Baguio City, Philippines named Leonard Wood Road, obviously named after the American General.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On March 7, 1906, US troops under the command of Major General Leonard Wood massacred as many as 1,000 Filipino Muslims, known as Moros, who were taking refuge at Bud Dajo, a volcanic crater on the island of Jolo in the southern Philippines. Above, US soldiers pose for the camera in the aftermath of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4641"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4641"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4641\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4790,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4641\/revisions\/4790"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}