[3] The distance from Corregidor Island to Manila City is 27 miles.
[4] In July, 1904, I saw five rusty hulls—remnant of the Spanish fleet—afloat in Cavite harbour.
[5] Admiral Patricio Montojo, born in 1831, entered the navy at the age of 14. After the Battle of Cavite he left for Europe in October, 1898, and was committed to prison, March 3, 1899, pending the trial by court-martial which condemned him to compulsory retirement from the service. He died in 1902, aged 71 years.
[6] Vide Senate Document No. 62, Part II., 55th Congress, 3rd Session, pp. 350–6. Published by the Government Printing Office, Washington, 1899.
[7] The Macabebes who came so conspicuously into prominence during the Rebellion of 1896 are the inhabitants of the town of Macabebe and its dependent wards, situated in Lower Pampanga, near the Hagonoy River. They are the only Filipinos who have persistently and systematically opposed the revolutionary faction of their own free will, without bribe or extraneous influence. No one seems to be able to explain exactly why they should have adopted this course. They aided the Spaniards against the rebels, and also the Americans against the insurgents. All I have been able to learn of them in the locality is that they keep exclusively to themselves, and have little sympathy for, and no cordial intercourse with, the natives of other towns, either in their own province or elsewhere. A generation ago the Macabebes had a bad reputation for their petty piratical depredations around the north shore of Manila Bay and the several mouths of the Hagonoy River, and it is possible that their exclusiveness results from their consciousness of having been shunned by the more reputable inhabitants. The total population of Macabebe is about 14,000.
[8] The finding of the court says: “Pasará á la seccion de reserva del Estado Mayor General del Ejército con incapacidad para obtener destinos y sin figurar en la escala de los de dicha categoria.” Signed by Canuto Garcia de Polavieja, dated April 28, 1899, and published in the Gaceta de Madrid.
[9] It seems almost incredible that, even at this crisis, the Spaniards still counted on native auxiliaries to fight against their own kith and kin.
[10] Vide Senate Document No. 62, Part II., 55th Congress, 3rd Session, p. 282. Published by the Government Printing Office, Washington, 1899.
[11] Captain T. Bentley Mott, A.D.C to General Merritt, writing in Scribnerʼs Magazine (December, 1898) says: “Neither the fleet nor the army was, at this time, ready for a general engagement. The army did not have, all told, enough ammunition for more than one day of hard fighting, and only a part of this was in the camp.” Admiral Dewey had then been in possession of Manila bay and port three months and 12 days.
[12] Vide Senate Document No. 62, Part II., 55th Congress, 3rd Session, p. 491.