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The Devil's Causeway: The True Story of America's First Prisoners of War in the Phillipines, and the Heroic Expedition Sent to Their Rescue
By Westfall, Matthew
- ISBN
- 9780762780297
- Publisher
- Lyons: Globe Pequot
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Reviewed on November 15, 2012 | E-Originals
In 1899, shortly after the American victory that made the Philippines a U.S. protectorate, the USS Yorktown sent 15 sailors to free Spanish soldiers besieged by Filipinos in a remote area on Luzon's east coast. The sailors rowed into an ambush; four died, and the rest were imprisoned. U.S. Army troops with Filipino guides eventually caught up with the POWs, but it...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
