Jovelan Escaňo
Mactal
Suzanne Eustaquio
Activity 3.7.4
Katanungan
By who, when and where was
the document made or written?
Experiences by Officers and Men
For whom was the document
written? Why was it made?
the American-Filipino war. Cities
From what you have read, what
three inferences have you
made?
houses and begged passersby for
The setting of the document was
in the Philippines wherein during
What is the time or period and
Dr. Ronaldo B.
KASPIL2
Dokumento 3.7.9 Dokumento 3.7.10
It was quoted from the literary
composition of James Rankin
Ang Anti-Imperialist League (o
Young and J. Hampton Moore
ang mga sundalong sina Guy
entitled Reminiscences and
Williams, Arthur Minkler,
Thrilling Stories of the War by
Captain Elliott, Leonard
Returned Heroes Containing
Adams,Theodore Conley, F.A.
Vivid Accounts of Personal
Blake, E.D. Furnam, Robert
Maxwell) ang lumikha ng
that was published in the midst
dokumento noong 1899.
of the war between Americans
and Filipino in the year 1899.
It was created for both Filipino’s
and Americans for them to see Nilikha ang dokumento para sa
the real story and the truth mga Pilipino na pinagmalupitan
behind the ng mga Amerikano, upang sa
war between Americans and gayon ay malaman nila ang
Filipinos. One purpose of the paghihirap at sinapit din ng mga
book is to convey a message of sundalong Amerikano na
how the cruelties of Americans ginamit ng Estados Unidos sa
cause violence that brutally kanilang bayolenteng pananakop
killed a several number of sa bansa.
Filipinos.
First, the country (Philippines)
was severely destroyed during
or towns are a great example of
despair. Second, the only
persons remaining behind were Una, masasabing maraming mga
a few aged persons that camp Pilipino ang pinatay o namatay
behind the ruins of their former sa panahong sinakop tayo ng
mga Amerikano.
any kind of assistance. Third, a
lot of Filipino died wherein their
bodies can be found anywhere
just like in the shallows of the
river or in the jungle.
that time, the Filipino-American
place (setting) of the document?
What do you know about the
said period or event?
What emotion did you feel after
reading the document? Why did
you feel such?
How did the document change
your views about the motive or
objective of United States’
colonization of the country?
What information from the
document add, support, or
contrast what have been stated
or illustrated in the pictures of
the Americans’ cruelty? Specify
each.
war is happening for the
conquest of freedom.
Labis na galit ang
mararamdaman pagkatapos
basahin ang dokumento. Sa mga
salaysay, hindi maikakailang
While reading the document, I
karumal-dumal ang nangyari sa
felt sufferings, sorrow, hatred,
ating mga kababayan; marami sa
despair and agony of the Filipino
kanila ay nagbuwis ng buhay. Sa
during that time. These
kabilang banda, nakaramdam rin
emotions burst out as I imagine
kami ng awa dahil ang mga
how they we’re harshly killed by
Pilipino at mga sundalong
the Americans in their own
Amerikano na naapektuhan dahil
native land.
sa kalupitan ng mga dayuhan ay
walang magawa kundi ang
magtiis na lamang sa ganoong
kalagayan.
The picture that most books
present to us regarding the
colonization of Americans that
shows a good perspective
regarding their time was just a
small part of it. The bigger part
of the picture is sufferings of the
Filipino in the middle of the war,
wanting to attain peace and
freedom for their own
motherland.
“The general appearance of the
country was as if it had been “The soldiers made short work of
swept by a cyclone.” the whole thing. They looted
(robbed) every house, and found
“The roads we’re strewn with almost everything, from a pair of
furniture and clothing dropped wooden shoes up to a piano, and
in flight of the Filipinos” they carried everything off or
destroyed it.”
“The only persons remaining
behind we’re a few aged persons “ We advanced four miles and
too infirm to escape.” we fought every inch of the
way”…saw twenty-five dead
“The majority of them we’re insurgents in one place and
living on the generosity of our twenty-seven in another, besides
soldiers who gave them portions a whole lot of them scattered
of their rations. “ along that I did not count…”
 “Bodies of dead Filipinos we’re “Caloocan was supposed to
stranded in the shallows of the contain seventeen thousand
river, or we’re resting in the inhabitants. The Twentienth
jungle where they crawled to Kansas swept through it, and
die, or we’re left in the wake of now Caloocan contains not one
the hurriedly retreating army. living native. Of the buildings,
These bodies gave forth a the battered walls of the great
horrible odour, but there was no church and dismal prison alone
time to bury them.” remain. The village of Maypaja,
where our first fight occurred on
the night of the fourth, had five
thousand people in it that day-
now not one stone remains upon
top of another.”

“ I don’t know how many men,

women, and children the
Tennessee boys did kill.”

“Talk about dead Indians! Why,

they are lying everywhere. The
trenches are full of them…Those
not killed in the trenches were
killed when they tried to come
out. No wonder they can’t shoot
with that light thrown on them,
shells bursting and infant
pouring in lead all the time.
Honest to God, I feel sorry for
them.”

“I never saw such execution in

my life, and hope to never see
such sights as met me on all
sides as our little corps passed
over the field, dressing
wounded. Legs and arms nearly
demolished, total decapitation,
horrible wounds in chests and
abdomens, showing the
determination of our soldiers to
kill every native in sight. I
counted seventy-nine dead
natives in one small field, and
learn that on the other side of
the river their bodies were
stacked up for breastworks.”

What information from the
document add, support, or
contrast what have been stated
in the Batayang Aklat?
What conclusion did you make
from the pictures, document and
Batayang Aklat in relation to the
American colonization? Did it
change your view about your
previous definition of
“We burned hundreds of houses
and looted hundreds more…”
“Sometimes we stopped to make
sure a native was dead and not
lying down to escape injury.”
“The smoke curled from
hundreds of ash heaps, and the
remains of trees and fences torn
by shrapnel we’re to be seen
everywhere”
“The general appearance of the
country was as if it had been
swept by a cyclone.”
“The roads we’re strewn with
furniture and clothing dropped
in flight of the Filipinos”
“The only persons remaining
behind we’re a few aged persons
too infirm to escape.”
“The majority of them we’re
living on the generosity of our
soldiers who gave them portions
of their rations. “
“Bodies of dead Filipinos we’re
stranded in the shallows of the
river, or we’re resting in the
jungle where they crawled to
die, or we’re left in the wake of
the hurriedly retreating army.
These bodies gave forth a
horrible odour, but there was no
time to bury them.”
American colonization cause a
big change in the Philippines in
terms of culture, government,
economy, and lifestyle of many
Filipinos from the influences of
Americans and the impact that
the westerners culture brings
colonization? forth for the people of the
nation. On the other hand,
before they came, there was a
war. A war that killed millions of
Filipino lives because of the
greedy objectives that the
Americans want to achieve as
they colonized the Philippine
islands with its rich and bountiful
resources. As time passed by,
Americans sold their junks in the
Philippines of which the Filipinos
love to buy and patronize. The
memories of war, the Filipino
lives that was sacrificed for
freedom is constantly fading.
From these, one can truly say
that American colonization
doesn’t have a good impact for
the lives of the Filipinos. The one
who really benefit from this
colonization period is none other
than the Americans.