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Title: Deeds of valor : how America's heroes won the medal of honor : personal reminiscences and records of officers and enlisted men who were awarded the congressional medal of honor for most conspicuous acts of bravery in battle : combined with an abridged history of our country's wars
Year: 1901 (1900s)
Authors: Beyer, Walter F Keydel, Oscar F. (Oscar Frederick), b. 1871
Subjects: United States. Army United States. Navy
Publisher: Detroit, Mich. : Perrien-Keydel Co.
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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all and a stone building, used by the Americans as a police station in that district,were the only large buildings in a group of nipa huts. The incendiaries had beenre-enforced in that section by about 500 native soldiers, who had in some mannercrept through the lines near the sea. There was one company of the Minnesotaregiment in the police station at Tondo, and General Hughes had placed another inTondo Church to meet any emergency. At the time the fire broke out an attack was made by the native troops on thepolice station. It was their intention to drive the company of Minnesota menout of their barracks and finish them off in short order. As the flames shot up to the sky, the insurgent bugles rang out long and loud, as if sounding the charge, andthe insurgents tried to drive the men from the police station. They were unable toget by the guard at the gate, and then tried to scale the wall, but met with a sharpfire which prevented their climbing over. Re-enforcements soon arrived—two
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THE BURNING OF MANILA. — 430 companies of the Second Oregon and two of the Twenty-third United States In-fantry. They lined out along the Calle Iris in ditches, and also at right angles to the road skirting the fire. The hre leaped and roared in mountains of flame, andto add to the general hubbub the joints in the bamboo huts burst with sharp reportslike those of a rifle. Shots came toward the Calle Iris from all parts of the burningdistrict, and the soldiers promptly returned the fire. The advancing flames drovebefore them a crowd of women and children carrying bundles of what they had beenable to save from their homes. They moaned and chattered in fright, and piteouslybegged to be saved from the fiery element. Along with them came a number ofmen, half-naked, who probably a few minutes before had been firing into the ranksof the Americans. They were allowed to pass into the city. The fire swept fiercelywith flaming tongues and hoarse roar, driven by the wind. For some time it wasdou

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