Heading: (Philippine-American War)
Author:
Title: Five American military maps after U.S. occupation of the Philippines in the Spanish-American War
Place Published: Washington, D.C.
Publisher:U.S. War Department
Date Published: 1899-1901
Description: 5 maps. Comprising:
Sketch of Combat at Trench Near Marilao [Luzon] March 27. To accompany report of Major J.F. Bell. (D.H. Blakelock, compiler. 1899) 7x12½", colored + three smaller folding maps. Removed from a document of the Military Intelligence Division, War Department.
Expedition and Engagement of Pinauran November 22, 1900, U.S. Troops Commanded by Colonel J. Milton Thompson.( Arthur Poillon compiler. 1901). 13¼x12¼", folded. Detailed topography, routes of troops and insurgents and the location of the final engagement. Signed in type by Colonel Thompson of the 42nd Infantry who took command after the original commander, Lt. Col. Byam of the 27th Infantry was injured. (light offsetting)
The maps show engagements between American forces and Aguinaldo's insurgents during their ill-fated attempt to fight a conventional war against the better-trained and equipped US troops. before resorting to guerrilla-style warfare.The combat shown in the first maps took place after the Filipinos had lost the city of Manila to the Americans when forces commanded by General MacArthur (father of the World War II and Korean War commander) pushed across the Marilao River in a drive to capture Aguinaldo's capital of Malalos. The last larger map shows combat, 35 miles from Manila, when 1000 US troops captured a supposedly impregnable Insurgent stronghold, the stone fortress of Pinauran atop a steep hill surrounded by canyons. After the Filipino defeat in November 1900, Aguinaldo began to adopt guerilla tactics.

Very good to near fine.