Moro Crater massacre

Moro Crater massacre
Date 1906
Location Jolo island, Philippines
Result US victory
Belligerents
Moro Rebellion Philippine Constabulary
 United States
Commanders and leaders
Unknown Major General Leonard Wood
Strength
Unknown 540?
Casualties and losses
600? civilians 15 killed, 32 wounded

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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References

  1. ^ Beede, Benjamin R. The War of 1898 and U.S. Interventions, 1898-1934: An Encyclopedia. New York: Garland, 1994, page 74