Question
When a representative of this leader asked General Elwell Otis to cease hostilities, Otis replied, “Fighting, having begun, must go on to the grim end.” For 10 points each:
[10e] Name this revolutionary leader who served as the first president of the Philippines.
ANSWER: Emilio Aguinaldo y Famy
[10m] General Otis investigated claims that this “little colonel” ordered the shooting of Filipino prisoners. He was promoted to brigadier general after an action taken alongside Macabebe Scouts while his men posed as POWs.
ANSWER: Frederick Funston [or “Fighting Fred” Funston] (who captured Aguinaldo)
[10h] Marcus Miller mistakenly gave out a copy of this document without General Otis’s redactions. Stuart Creighton Miller’s history of US-Philippine relations is titled for this proclamation, itself named for a two-word phrase McKinley used to describe the mission of “substituting the mild sway of justice and right for arbitrary rule.”
ANSWER: “Benevolent Assimilation” Proclamation
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Summary
| 2024 ARGOS @ Brandeis | 03/22/2025 | Y | 3 | 13.33 | 100% | 33% | 0% |
| 2024 ARGOS @ Chicago | 11/23/2024 | Y | 6 | 15.00 | 83% | 67% | 0% |
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