Date of Award
12-2025
Language
English
Document Type
Honors Thesis
Degree Name
Bachelor of Arts
Department
History
Advisor/Committee Chair
David Hochfelder
Committee Member
Michitake Aso
Abstract
In March of 1906, American troops massacred over 1,000 Filipino civilians on Bud Dajo mountain. American service members were commended for this incident. My research examines this massacre to ask why wars of insurgency are specifically subject to abuses of power, particularly during the American-Philippines War and the ensuing colonial warfare between 1898 and 1906 under the colonization of the US. My research will focus on the circumstances created to excuse US soldiers after atrocities were committed and the colonial attitudes of the time in addition to the brutal methods used by the American government in Philippines. American colonial administrators and soldiers dehumanized the Filipino population by devaluing their culture, religion, and existing political institutions. I conclude by showing how the American occupation of the Philippines set the model for future wars of insurgency like the Vietnam War.
Recommended Citation
Fitzpatrick, Mattie, ""Forgive Our Living and Our Dead": Colonial Warfare in the Philippines" (2025). History. 21.
https://scholarsarchive.library.albany.edu/honorscollege_history/21