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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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