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Chapter X
Typical Atrocities — The Olayita Massacre1
N the second of
May I rode with
the force of Major
Manolo Menendez
near the town of Soledad.
evening we passed by
a little hamlet of half a
dozen houses. The
peasants recognized
us as insurgents
and came out to
meet us in great
excitement. This
was their story : —
The Spanish
"His hat . . . remained." guerrilleros of Las
Rodas had passed
there that morning, and, finding no insurgents to
fight, they halted before the house of Desiderio
Vida, a man of thirty, who supported his mother,
his wife and children, by his labor as a small farmer.
The captain of the guerilla entered the house with
1 See also the story of the murder of the American correspondent, Charles
Govin. Appendix B.
| Title | Marching with Gomez |
| Creator | Flint, Grover |
| Publisher | Lamson, Wolffe and company |
| Place of Publication | Boston, New York [etc.] |
| Date | 1898 |
| Language | eng |
| Type | Books/Pamphlets |
| Title | 00000135 |
| Type | Books/Pamphlets |
| Transcript | Chapter X Typical Atrocities — The Olayita Massacre1 N the second of May I rode with the force of Major Manolo Menendez near the town of Soledad. evening we passed by a little hamlet of half a dozen houses. The peasants recognized us as insurgents and came out to meet us in great excitement. This was their story : — The Spanish "His hat . . . remained." guerrilleros of Las Rodas had passed there that morning, and, finding no insurgents to fight, they halted before the house of Desiderio Vida, a man of thirty, who supported his mother, his wife and children, by his labor as a small farmer. The captain of the guerilla entered the house with 1 See also the story of the murder of the American correspondent, Charles Govin. Appendix B. |
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