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The Frontier
O'neill, O'neill City, Holt County, Nebraska
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Scribner's June article details a successful assault by the First Nebraska regiment on Filipino positions across the San Juan River in the Philippines, praising the natives' brave but futile resistance under heavy artillery and rifle fire.
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Scribner's for June contains a long article on the war in the Philippines, showing that bravery is not all on the side of the Americans, and illustrating one instance where the First Nebraska successfully made an assault under a withering fire.
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"Dawn found three companies of the Nebraska men charging down over the rice fields, covered by the fire of the 3.2-inch Utah guns. The position of the natives was almost untenable, but for more than half an hour they withstood the heavy fire of the artillery and the cross-fire of the encroaching riflemen. Every time a shell burst a line of white hats and feathered heads would leap in the air and yell 'Viva, viva, Filipina!' and then settle down and pour volleys, accompanied by arrows, into the American lines across the San Juan river. It was a wonderful exhibition of bravery, recklessness -perhaps fanaticism-but utterly useless against the overwhelming force of their enemies."
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Philippines
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the first nebraska successfully made an assault; the natives' resistance was ultimately useless against the overwhelming force of the americans.
Event Details
Three companies of the Nebraska men charged down over the rice fields, covered by the fire of the 3.2-inch Utah guns. The natives withstood the heavy artillery fire and cross-fire of riflemen for more than half an hour, yelling 'Viva, viva, Filipina!' and firing volleys and arrows into the American lines across the San Juan river, exhibiting bravery, recklessness, or fanaticism.