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2 PIR 980.1 3 Ibid 4 Ibid , 436 5 Correspondence relating to the war with Spain between the adjutant-general of the army and military commanders in the United States , Cuba , Porto Rico , China , and the Philippines online , http :// www . ebooksread . com / authors-eng / united-states-adjutant-generals-office / correspondence-relating-to-the-warwith-spain-and-conditions-growing-out-of-the--372 / page-76-correspondencerelating-to-the-war-with-spain-and-conditions-growing-out-of-the--372 . shtml 6http :// guides . wikinut . com / General-Vicente-R . -Lukban-the-most-hatedgeneral-of-the-Philippine-Revolution / 3238ggd1 / 7 Report by Maj . S . Quioson , Exhibit 1363 , pp 709-710 8 Ibid 9 C . Guevarra ’ s report , Exhibit 1364 , pp . 711-712 10 Ibid 11 Bruno , 8 12 New York Times , Dec . 4 , 1901 13 Ibid 14 Ibid 15 Perrine , David , “ The Philippine Insurrection 1899-1902 : A combat patrol on Samar ,” Infantry Magazine / Jan-Feb , 2009 . David Perrine is a retired lieutenant colonel who served 21 years in the Infantry including combat tours in Laos and Vietnam with the 7th Special Forces Group ( Airborne ) and 2nd Battalion , 502nd Infantry ( Airborne ). Synopsis of the encounter also appeared in an American paper . ” Severe fight in Samar ,” Hand-to-hand encounter with a band of bolomen ; Seven American soldiers killed and Capt . Schoffel and six men wounded , The Indianopolis Journal , Vol . LI- No . 361 , Dec . 27 , 1901 16 Tarangnan is situated on the western coast of Samar Island , to the south-east of the ancient town of Bangahon ( now Gandara ) and to the north of Samar ’ s capital Catbalogan . Tarangnan is found near the former ancient pueblo Tinago , the first town to be Christianized and was made a center or cabecera . During the earlier part of the 17th century , Tarangnan or Tinago was the first settlement of Jesuit missionaries on the island of Samar . Tinago was the first cabecera on Samar where the first Jesuits have arrived , that is October 15 , 1596 . When Tinago was devastated by the Moro attack in 1618 , the Jesuits decided to transfer the cabecera to Catbalogan . Since that time Tinago had not came back to life as pueblo until 1725 . The poblacion was established at Dapdap but for access and sanitation it was moved to tarangnan in 1883-1884 . The attempted transfer of the pueblo from Dapdap to Tarangnan in 1882 became highly celebrated case . It was a struggle or a fight between the parish priest of Dapdap , Fr . Angel Pulido , OFM and the governadorcillo of Dapdap . ( Source : Wikipedia , http :// en . wikipedia . org / wiki / Tarangnan ,_ Samar ) 17 Op cit ., Perrine 18 “ Soldiers Battle With Bolomen , Seven Americans Fall in a Fight on Island of Samar ,” San Francisco Call , Volume 91 , Number 27 , 27 December 1901 19 “ Report of the Lieutenant-General Commanding the Army and Department
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