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	Balangiga Bells
		during the 1901 Balangiga “Massacre” in the island province of Samar, Philippines.
		Historians considered the battle of Balangiga as the bloodiest chapter of the American Army in the Philippines.
		Balangiga, Eastern Samar and was annihilated by the Filipino patriots.
	www.catbalogan.com /Balangiga.html (2557 words)

	The Balangiga Massacre
		In August 1901, Balangiga was a small seaside village of 200 nipa houses in Samar, Visayas.
		The US Army 9th Infantry Regiment of the U.S. army was sent to the town to establish a garrison and assist in the pacification of the Visayan Islands.
		At 6:30 a.m., the bells of Balangiga were rung, signaling the attack of 400 men led by the highest town official.
	opmanong.ssc.hawaii.edu /filipino/balangiga.html (252 words)

	encounters (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The event, known in history as the Balangiga Massacre, was described by the US military as its "worst single defeat" in the Philippines and among the worst defeats in its entire history.
		The Filipino victory in Balangiga was followed by a shameful episode that the US government has not yet regretted nor apologized for.
		The Balangiga Massacre is popularly associated with three church bells of varying sizes, all taken as "war trophies" and brought to the US.
	www.alibata.org /encounters/encounters.html (608 words)

	The Filipino Express Online
		According to Couttie’s new book, “Hang The Dogs: The True Tragic History of the Balangiga Massacre,” the U.S. government’s refusal to return religious artifacts, two bells, looted from a church in Balangiga, Samar at the central Philippines, 103 years ago this week, is taking a toll on the U.S. war on terrorism.
		The Balangiga incident itself occurred on September 28, 1901, during the Philippine War of Independence following the refusal of then-president William McKinley to recognize Philippine independence.
		Townspeople in Balangiga on Samar, central Philippines, attacked and defeated a garrison of the 9th Infantry, killing two thirds of the American soldiers.
	www.filipinoexpress.com /18/40_news.html (4048 words)

	Asia Travel and Other Ramblings: “Sow the Wind” - The Massacre at Balangiga
		The church bells at Balangiga, on the Philippine island of Samar, rang earlier than usual on the morning of September 28, 1901.
		In his official report, Bookmiller wrote, “It is not known who was the leader of the attack, but the town [mayor] and the chief of police were at least the organizers and promoters.
		As shocking as the Balangiga massacre was to the Americans, the U.S. military's response was even more shocking.
	asiawriter.blogspot.com /2006/06/sow-wind-massacre-at-balangiga.html (1864 words)

	Hang The Dogs: The True Tragic History of the Balangiga Massacre
		The road to Balangiga (to Catubig, Quinapundan, and elsewhere) in Samar was laid, the trap for disaster set.
		To him the Balangiga Incident was not a massacre; it was a “rout” (unwritten portion, interview with this reviewer, August 22, 1964).
		That the author of Hang The Dogs pays attention with reasonable details to the preparation of the local populace and assiduously portrays the awry of the fighting should settle the question many had posed on whether the Americans were justified in their unmeasured revenge, the wanton killing and the razing of Samar that followed.
	gugma.samarnews.net /articles/article8.htm (1975 words)

	04sep28-Balingaga bells toll
		MASSACRE: This day, September 28, is a red-day in both Philippine and American history as the day of the Balangiga Massacre.
		The attackers were protesting the starvation forced on them by the destruction or seizure of their food stocks, the rounding of about 80 villagers for forced labor and detained in crowded cells with little food and water, and their having been humiliated by the foreign intruders.
		NEW SAMAR: We are supposed to be in Balangiga today with Eastern Samar Gov. Ben Evardone, a media colleague, to join his constituents in marking this day and using it as a jumpoff point to a more progressive future.
	www.manilamail.com /archive/sep2004/04sep28.htm (2877 words)

	Bill filed in Congress for return of The Bell
		It had been widely believed that the church bells of Balangiga were tolled to signal the attack on the US troops.
		And the two recently published books, including Borrinaga’s about the Balangiga event, had documented that the attack had begun when a bell was rung as signal for the hidden reinforcements to join the attack on the garrison.
		The three church bells of Balangiga were taken days after the attack by men of the 11th US Infantry.
	abc.eznettools.net /pob-usa/pob/2005/1102_jlariosa.html (779 words)

	Balangiga massacre - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Balangiga Bells, remain an outstanding issue of contention related to the war.
		Philippine Insurrection", Company C, United States 9th Infantry arrived in Balangiga, the third largest town on the southern coast of Samar island, to close its port and prevent supplies reaching Filipino forces in the interior.
		With some of them disguised as women, the townspeople surprised the garrison while they were at breakfast with their firearms stacked in the municipal hall some twenty yards away.
	www.lewrockwell.com /orig6/balangiga.html (1247 words)

	Couttie Interview
		Going back to the Balanggiga incident or the Balangiga massacre, a lot of our readers are not familiar with this incident and what happened there.
		Now, as time went on--this happened as the summer was moving into the famine season, the commander of the garrison ordered food seizures because he believed the were going to the insurgents, or the Filipino forces.
		The next day the Americans came back, set fire to the town and for some reason, a month later they came back again and bombarded the town from ships...the phrase there was not one stone left upon another.
	www.philnews.com /2005/da3.html (597 words)

	[TMP] Polls: Should U.S. Return the Balangiga Bells?
		The U.S. responded with a campaign to pacify Samar island, and the church bells of Balangiga (and other church bells in the region) were taken as trophies of war.
		Several Balangiga bells are currently on display at Warren Air Force Base in Cheyenne, Wyoming.
		The actual church bell from Balangiga, however, is believed to be at a U.S. base in Korea.
	theminiaturespage.com /polls/362306487 (306 words)

	Moro Crater massacre - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Moro Crater massacre is a name given to the final phase of the First Battle of Bud Dajo, a military engagement of the Philippine-American War which took place March 10, 1906, on the isle of Jolo in the southern Philippines.
		Forces of the U.S. Army under the command of Major General Leonard Wood, a naval detachment comprising 540 soldiers, along with a detachment of native constabulary, armed with artillery and small firearms, attacked a village hidden in the crater of the dormant volcano Bud Dajo.
		Writing that "the spirit which slaughters brown men in Jolo is the spirit which lynches fl men in the South," Moorfield Storey, in "The Moro Massacre" (Boston: Anti-Imperialist League, 1906), blamed both the soldiers who participated in the slaughter, and their "partners in crime", the silent U.S. public.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Moro_Crater_Massacre (3225 words)

	Balangiga massacre - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The "Balangiga massacre" was an incident in 1901 during the Philippine-American War (or "Philippine Insurrection", according to older US terminology) where many American soldiers were killed in a surprise guerilla attack in the town of Balangiga on Samar island.
		Demands for the return of the bells of the church at Balangiga, taken by Americans as war booty and collectively known as the Balangiga Bells, remain an outstanding issue of contention related to the war.
		To this day, one church bell remains in the possession of the 9th Infantry Regiment at their base in South Korea, while two others are on a former base of the 11th Infantry Regiment at Warren Air Force Base in Cheyenne, Wyoming.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Balangiga_massacre (1488 words)

	Bulatlat - The Philippines's alternative weekly magazine
		According to Couttie, the Balangiga Raid as a deliberate attack on the American occupation and on Empire was an act of terrorism.
		However, even if it were shown to have not taken place in Balangiga before the Raid, this fact could only be minor and peripheral, considering that many Balangignons were subjected to many other equally abusive forms of physical and mental torture, a fact which he does not dispute.
		In short, according to Couttie, the Balangiga Raid as a deliberate attack on the American occupation and on Empire was an act of terrorism.
	bulatlat.com /news/5-8/5-8-balangiga.html (5539 words)

	Manila Standard Today -- Balangiga bells to be returned to RP soon -- November 14, 2005
		Filipino historians said the Balangiga bells are the symbols of Filipino courage during the Filipino-American war.
		The event, known in history as the Balangiga Massacre, was described by the US military as its “worst single defeat” in the Philippines and among the worst setbacks in its entire history.
		The Filipino victory in Balangiga was followed by a shameful episode that the US government has not yet apologized for.
	www.manilastandardtoday.com /?page=news03_nov14_2005 (862 words)

	Eastern Samar
		An American garrison of occupation troops was annihilated by the townspeople of Balangiga on September 28, 1901.
		Now known in history as the "Balangiga Massacre", this incident triggered a wave of reprisal against the people of the whole island of Samar.
		The 23 municipalities composing the province are Jipapad, Arteche, San Policarpo, Oras, Maslog, Dolores, Can-avid, Taft, Sulat, San Julian, Borongan, Maydolong, Balangkayan, Llorente, Hernani, Maydolong, Balangkayan, Giporlos, Lawa-an, Balangiga, Mercedes, and Guiuan.
	darfu8.tripod.com /rp_easternsamar.htm (934 words)

	The Balangiga Massacre: Getting Even
		Captain Bookmiller, the commander in Basey, sailed immediately for Balangiga with a force of volunteers in a gunboat.
		Thus ended the short-lived policy of benevolent assimilation in Balangiga.
		That, too, explains why today the Balangiga Massacre still means in American history books the killing of forty-eight Americans, not the killing of tens of thousands of Filipino civilians.
	www.bibingka.com /phg/balangiga/default.htm (3114 words)

	The Burning of SAMAR
		This action was the result of was what was to be known as the Balangiga Massacre.
		The massacre shocked the U.S. public and many newspaper editors noted that it was the worst disaster suffered by the U.S. Army since Custer's last stand at Little Big Horn.
		This raid, however, was unknown to the isolated garrison at Balangiga.
	www.bakbakan.com /samarall.htm (2990 words)

	A hunger for history: a study of Ma-Yi Theater Group's Project: Balangiga MELUS - Find Articles
		Project: Balangiga, written by Ralph Pena and Sung Rno, satisfies their hunger for history, and, at the same time, interrogates Philippine-American relations.
		Using a documentary-style format, the play features actors of various ethnicities (Asian Americans and Caucasian) playing themselves as they narrate their investigation of the events surrounding the Balangiga massacre (2) and the succeeding controversy over the seizure of the Balangiga church bells.
		For the people of Cheyenne, Wyoming, where two of the bells are displayed, they are a symbol of the grief of the American people for the soldiers who lost their lives during the massacre in the town of Balangiga, Samar, in the central Philippines.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m2278/is_1_29/ai_n6148076 (863 words)

	Samar (Western Samar)
		The Balangiga Massacre in 1901 resulted in the worst US military defeat in during the Philippine-American war.
		In retaliation, a battalion of US Marines were tasked with reducing the island province into a howling wilderness.
		The Basey Church was a place for public meetings and stage plays during the Japanese occupation and a place of refuge during the liberation.
	philippines-archipelago.com /author/visited/samar.html (363 words)

	Library Link - Featured Article
		The so-called Balangiga Massacre turned out to be the worst single defeat of the US Army during the Philippine-American War.
		Father Guimbaolibot, parish priest of Balangiga from March 2, 1900 to May 8, 1904, was singled out by the US military officials as the possible "mastermind" behind their defeat.
		The two Americans known by the Balangiga plotters to have survived the massacre fled by paddling a banca toward Tolosa, Leyte, and proceeding to Tanauan.
	www.librarylink.org.ph /featarticle.asp?articleid=46 (2893 words)

	America Vs. Philippines - Asia Finest Discussion Forum (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		In the small town of Balangiga, the people were determined to fight against the U.S. occupation of their country.
		U.S. soldiers stole the three church bells in Balangiga that had signaled the death of Company C. And to this day, two of these bells are in a monument in Cheyenne, Wyoming--at a military post first occupied by U.S. soldiers who fought and killed the Indians.
		Now, in the Philippines, there is a campaign to demand that the Bells of Balangiga be returned to the Philippines, where they rightfully belong--as a reminder to the people of the atrocities carried out by U.S. imperialism and the heroism of those who dared to resist.
	www.asiafinest.com /forum/index.php?showtopic=4719 (6007 words)

	Bells of Balangiga
		In a nutshell, the Bells of Balangiga are Church bells.
		The church bells in Balangiga were reportedly used to signal a surprise attack by Filipino insurgents, many using machetes on an American garrison posted in the town.
		Among the actions taken by the American troops during the reprisals was the razing of several Catholic churches in the area and the confiscation of the Bells of Balangiga as trophies of war.
	www.samarnews.com /Insight/insight9.htm (3373 words)

	Jungle Patrol - 9. The Bloody Island
		The army remembered it for the massacre of Company C of the 9th United States Infantry at Balangiga.
		Among the rifles captured by Crockett were four Krags that had been lost by Company C of the 9th Infantry during that dreadful massacre at Balangiga.
		The tragedy of Balangiga was fresh in the minds of his men, as was that earlier massacre at Catubig.
	www.bakbakan.com /junglep/jp-9.html (5192 words)

	Edwin Victor Bookmiller, Colonel, United States Army
		Four days after the Balangiga attack, a report by 9th Infantry Captain Edwin V. Bookmiller fingered local Chief of Police Pedro Sanchez as the instigator of the assault at 6:20 a.m.
		The soldiers retook Balangiga and burned the village to the ground.
		Fresh American detachment of fifty-three volunteers promptly steamed to Balangiga, their ship machine gun and cannon scattering a mob of natives defiantly shouting from the shore.
	www.arlingtoncemetery.net /evbookmiller.htm (633 words)

	Definitive: Balangiga Massacre - Military Photos
		The Balangiga Massacre infuriated Chafee who assured the press that "the situation calls for shot, shells and bayonets as the natives are not to be trusted."Chafee informed his officers that it was his intention "to give the Filipinos 'bayonet rule' for years to come."
		The Balangiga Massacre and the corresponding reprisal was only part of the many years of struggle, heroism and betrayal.
		For considerably more accurate accounts consuklt Rollando Borrinaga's "The Balangiga Conflict Revisited" and/or my own "Hang The Dogs: The True Tragic History of the Balangiga Massacre", both published by New Day, Quezon City, Philippines, 2003 and 2004 respectively.
	www.militaryphotos.net /forums/showthread.php?t=22182 (3430 words)

	Balangiga Massacre and Leyte Landing
		The statue of Capitan Valeriano Abanador (left), leader of the Balangiga Attack on September 28, 1901, stands tall on a pedestal fronting the municipal plaza of Balangiga, Eastern Samar.
		BBC Radio 4 premiered on November 7, 2002 a 30-minute radio documentary on the history of Philippine-American relations using the Balangiga legacy as framework.
		The album is dedicated to the campaign to bring home the church bells of Balangiga and in honor of all freedom-loving Filipinos.
	www.geocities.com /rolborr/baleyte.html (369 words)

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