Moro Crater massacre
The Moro Crater massacre is a name given to the final phase of the First Battle of Bud Dajo, a military engagement of the Philippine-American War which took place March 10, 1906, on the isle of Jolo in the southern Philippines. Forces of the U.S. Army under the command of Major General Leonard Wood, a naval detachment comprising 540 soldiers, along with a detachment of native constabulary, armed with artillery and small firearms, attacked a village hidden in the crater of the dormant volcano Bud Dajo. More than 600 mostly unarmed Muslim Moro villagers (including many women and children) were killed by the Americans, of whom eighteen soldiers were killed and fifty-two were wounded.[1]
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- Mark Twain, Weapons of Satire, pp. 168-178, Syracuse University Press, Syracuse, NY 1992
- This material is taken from the Humanities Digital Information Service of Stanford University [1]. Textbase is no longer available due to copyright issues.
- Comments on the Moro Massacre by Mark Twain
- ^ Beede, Benjamin R. The War of 1898 and U.S. Interventions, 1898-1934: An Encyclopedia. New York: Garland, 1994, page 74