The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1899-03-31

commonplace. but on the part of the
soldiers engaged, every skirmish has it's
phase of heroism.
Rudyard Kipling puts it rightly in
his recent poem, Take Up the White
Mans Burden. when he says to eS-
panding America, $50 bind your sons to
exile. 1t is an exile. and all who see
the brave fellows sail so cheerfully away
at moments notice know that it is
exile without a compromising feature
for the victims of it,
At the end of the long wars of Napo-
leon the great marshals who had fol-
lowed him across the hot sands of
Egypt, in the bleak Alps, over the
mountain barriers of Spain, amid the
frozen terrors of Russia and through
the rivers of blood on Prussian battle
fields prevailed upon the ambitious en-
peror to make peace with the nations
and allow them the quiet which their
long services and growing years had
earned. And they We're of a fighting
race. Yet today at Manila are seen sol
diers taking up the new warfare of civ
ilization who fought with Grant and
Sherman and Sheridan more than 80
years ago aud have ever since stood at
arms for the ceaseless drum call Of
duty along the border and the disquiet-
ed region beyond the Rockies. If not by
their battles in the sixties, then surely
by their long and patient service as
guardians of the border peace, have the
veterans of the army earned the right
| to rest from wars
The first fight in the Philippines took
place with the Spanish garrison of Ma
Mia on July 81. General Merritt COM
handing the American forces had used
the time since his arrival on July 25 to
get troops into position to assault the
city General Francis " Greene's bri-
| gade had been first to land and was
stationed on the shore of the bay about
| five miles from Cavite toward Manila.
| Greene is not Il civil war veteran, but
received the best army training and
had smelled powder in the Asiatic cam
paigns of Russia. He was colonel of the
Seventy first New York when he re-
ceived the appointment which took
him far away from San Juan hill,
where his regiment made history of the
unenviable kind. The first work of
Greene was to erect batteries on the
beach of Manila bay. and in order to
get the right of way over the insur-
gents tact was necessary. General Mer.
rift would have no dealings with the
man Aguinaldo. but Greene induced a
subordinate chief to get out of the way
and let the Americans take peep at
the Spaniards. OF course the Spaniards
didn't like being looked at out of the
muzzies of s inch guns and tried to
drive Greene away. They did not sue
coed. although they tried it almost ev-
cry night until forced to quit for good
and all the 18th of August
The first supports to come to Greene
troops in the trenches were led by one
who made history for himself as boy
colonel during the civil war. Genera
Arthur Macarthur. Macarthur landed
his soldiers direct at the beach during
a protracted storm with heavy surf by
running the lighters head on to shore
Greene's and MacArthur's brigades to
gether numbered $500 men, and Mer
rift decided to end the business at {
blow. if possible without bombardins
the city of Manila.
On the 18th of August the navy pound
ed away at the sea TANKS of the Span
ish line and at signal stopped firms
to see what the army could do. Greene