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own appointee when the provincial government was reorganized a year earlier. Sabater turned himself in on February 11. He would later figure in the pro-American image building in Samar as a member of the American-inspired Partido Federalista.
The next day, a doctor, chemist and lieutenant surrendered. Then on February 13, Captains Rafael and Miguel Lukban, commanders of troops in Catbalogan, and Capt. Geronimo Abcede, captain of one of the infantry companies of the same place, also surrendered. 22
A man of less persistence and shorter vision would have folded up and surrendered to make his own life easier. But not Lukban. He was going to regroup his scattered troops in the next few months and send a strong message to his enemies that he was not done yet.
Endnotes
1 Major Stephen H. Brock, Jr.,“ U. S. Army Full Spectrum Operations in the Philippine Islands 1898-1941” 2 http:// en. wikipedia. org / wiki / William _ August _ Kobb % C3 % A9 3 Brig. Gen. William A. Kobbe,“ Report of an expedition to occupy and open hemp ports in the Philippine Islands,” January 18 to April 8, 1900 4 Charo Nabong-Cabardo,“ The Arteches of Catbalogan,” August 29, 2007 5 War Commission Report 1900 6 Exhibit 1333, p 653, PIR 1197.5 7 War Commission Report 1900 8 Maj. Henry T. Allen was 41 years old in 1900. He was a product of Georgetown College and graduated in 1878. Then he went to the United States Military Academy at West Point where he graduated in 1882, was commissioned a second lieutenant in the cavalry and assigned to Alaska in 1884. He worked worked as an instructor at West Point followed by a tour of duty in the old American West at Fort Keogh, Montana Territory where he guarded the Northern Pacific Railroad while it was under construction. After tours of duty as a military attache to Russia and Germany, we was deployed to Cuba where he served in the 2nd Cavalry Regiment and participated in the Battle of El Caney in Cuba. In 1899, he was reassigned to the Philippines where he worked to suppress insurgents. 9 War Commission Report 1900 10 John RM Taylor,“ Philippine Insurrection Against the Unite States,” Eugenio Lopez Foundation, Vol V, The Island of Samar, Dec. 1898 to Jul 4, 1902, p. 654 11 Exhibit 1333, p 653, PIR 1197.5 12 War Commission Report 1900 13 Ibid, p. 219 14 Op cit., Cabardo 15 Exhibit 1323, pp. 626-637 16 Ibid
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