24.-Calumpsit invested by Hale and Wheaton.
25.-Outer trenches of Calumpsit taken by Americans.

26.-Town of Calumpsit taken and occupied by American troops. General MacArthur recrosses the Rio Grande, advancing upon Apalit, and completely routing the enemy. During these operations Colonel Fred Funston, Twentieth Kansas (now Brigadier-General, U. S. A.), won fame by crossing the river in the face of the enemy.

28.-Two officers of General Luna's staff enter General MacArthur's line beyond Calumpsit, to ask a conference with the Commander-in-Chief. Sent to Manila, they ask General Otis for a suspension of hostilities, to allow time for the assembling of a Filipino Congress, to consider the question of peace or war. General MacArthur refuses to recognize the existence of a Fillpino government, but promises to hear the envoys on the following day.

29.-Colonel Manuel Arguelles and Lieutenant Jose Bernal, of the Filipino General Luna's staff have a second meeting with General Otis, President Schurman, of the U. S. Philippine Commission, being present. They state that Aguinaldo wants to give up the struggle without humiliation, and ask a fortnight's truce, which is refused. The Filipinos are informed that "a written guarantee of amnesty to all insurgents was the most that could be given" in case they lay down their arms.

MAY 1.-Insurgents routed by General Lawton at San Rafael.

2.-Anti-Imperialistic pamphlets by Edward Atkinson, of Boston, Mass., ordered to be intercepted from the Pacific mails. Colonel Fred Funston promoted to be Brigadier-General of Volunteers.

3.-Colonel Arguelles and another Filipino envoy visit General Otis again, presenting a letter from Senor Mabini, Filipino Minister of Foreign Affairs, to which Otis refuses to reply. denying also the petition of the envoys for an armistice.

4.-San Tomas taken by Americans. Filipinos defeated at Minalin and near San Fernando. 5.-Americans take San Fernando unresisted. 8.-Rear Admiral Watson ordered to report to Admiral Dewey to relieve him of the command of the Asiatic fleet.

American Soldiers Fighting in the Philippines.

12.-Filipinos driven from San Ildefonso by General Lawton.
16,-General Lawton takes San Isidro, the new insurgent capital.

20-General Otis refuses another request for an armistice. Admiral Dewey sails from Manila for Hong Kong.

22.-Aguinaldo's envoys have an interview with President Schurman, of the Philippine Commission, who submits to them certain propositions in writing, formally approved by President McKinley, and outlining a form of government for the Philippine Islands, subject to the action of Congress. The envoys regard the propositions unfavorably, and no result is reached.

24.-General Lawton reaches General MacArthur's lines, after a march of 120 miles, during which he had 22 fights and captured 28 towns, with a loss of 6 killed and 35 wounded. Insurgents repulsed at San Fernando. Spanish garrison evacuates Zamboanga, Mindanao Island, and has a fight with Filipinos.

27.-Captain Tilley, of the Signal Corps, murdered by Filipino marauders.

29.-Courts of justice in the Philippines, closed from the date of American occupation, reestablished by an order reviving all the Spanish systems, without conflicting with the sovereignty of the United States. Native justices appointed.

30.-American naval forces blockade the port of Sulu.

JUNE. 1.-General Lawton recalled to Manila to take command of an expedition against insurgents under General Pio del Pilar on the shore of Laguna de Bay.

4.-Americans sweep Morong Peninsula, win two battles, and take the towns of Morong and Antipolo.

8.-General Luna assassinated by Aguinaldo's guard.

10.-Insurgents driven from the isthmus south of Pasig River as far south as Paranaque, which town is bombarded and captured. Gunboat Napidan mows down a flanking party of Fillpinos near Taguig.

13.-Cavite Navy Yard attacked by insurgents with artillery; their positions shelled by the American fleet. General Lawton routs insurgents at Los Pinas with great slaughter; they abandon the coast and retire to Imus.

14.-Oregon troops, the first to leave the islands, sail from Manila for San Francisco. Bacoor taken by Americans.

15.-Filipinos driven from Imus by American troops, who occupy the town.

16.-Unsuccessful attack upon Americans at San Fernando. More than 50 insurgents killed, and 14 Americans wounded.

19.-Filipinos attack an American reconnoitering expedition near Peres das Marinas and are repulsed with slaughter.

20.-Peres das Marinas occupied by American forces. Admiral Watson arrives at Manila and takes command of Asiatic fleet.

22.-Repeated attacks upon General MacArthur's forces. Peace Envoy Arguelles sentenced by Filipinos to twelve years' imprisonment.

26.-General Otis reports insurgent forces broken up and the people desirous of protection. 28.-Filipinos at Mantinlupa shelled by Gunboat Napidan and driven away by cavalry. 30.-Night attack during rainstorm on north line of American forces at San Fernando results in three hours' fighting; insurgents retire with small loss; 2 Americans wounded.

JULY 1.-Attack on California troops embarking from Negros Island.

6. First order for enlistment of volunteers for the Philippine War is published; 10 regiments called for.

11.-American troops numbering 135 engage 500 insurgents intrenched near the shore at Mantinlupa, on the south shore of Laguna de Bay, and, with the assistance of the gunboat Napidan, drive them to the hills; 2 Americans wounded; insurgents lose 10 killed and several wounded.

21.-Captain Byrne, Sixteenth Infantry, with 70 men, surprises 400 Babylones at Bobong, Negros Island, killing 115 and wounding many; American loss, 1 killed and 1 wounded. 27.-Aguinaldo issues appeal to the Powers for recognition of Philippine independence.

28.-Insurgents routed in Cebu Island.

(During July an expedition under General R. H. Hall captured Calamba, a considerable trading town on the south shore of Laguna de Bay; the gunboats Napidan and Oeste co-operated.) AUGUST 9.-Force of 4,000 under General MacArthur attacks and defeats 6,000 Filipinos within six miles of San Fernando. American loss, 5 killed and 29 wounded; insurgent loss, 100 killed and 300 wounded.

12.-General S. B. M. Young's brigade routs Filipinos at San Mateo, losing 3 killed and 13 wounded. The Filipinos, 300 or 400 strong, retreat to the hills and cannot be dislodged. Insurgents attacking San Luis, on the Rio Grande, repulsed by two companies of the Twenty-second Infantry in garrison there.

14.-Insurgents defeated between Bustos and Quingua.

16.-Colonel Smith, with 10 companies of the Twelfth Infantry and two guns of Battery F, First Artillery, attacks 2,500 insurgents intrenched at Angeles, drives them out and takes the town.

17.-Insurgents intrenched before Calulet driven out after a hard battle. Unsuccessful attempt by insurgents to retake Angeles. President McKinley issues a call for ten more reglments of volunteers.

20.Intrenched force of Filipinos north of Angeles driven out.

22.-Mayor of San Pedro Macati, appointed by U. S. Military authorities, brought as prisoner to Manila, charged with using his office as an insurgent recruiting station. 26.-Insurgents in Zamboanga Island defeated by Dato Mundi, a native chief. 31.-Native bandit stronghold of Argegula, near Iloilo, destroyed by troops.

SEPTEMBER 2.-Ineffectual fire opened on Americans at Angeles by insurgents, with two Krupp guns.

13.-Gunboat Paragua destroys a Filipino schooner after a sharp engagement at Balemao.

14.-Gunboat Paragua disperses insurgents at San Fabian, on northern coast of Luzon. 22.-General Snyder takes seven insurgent forts in Cebu.

23.-Town of Olangapo, on Subig Bay, an intrenched Filipino position; bombarded by the Charleston, Monterey, Concord and supplying ship Zafiro; landing party captures large Krupp gun. Gunboat Urdenta grounds in Oran River, is looted by natives, and crew is made prisoners. 28.-General MacArthur evacuates Porac.

29.-Americans evacuate Porac.

OCTOBER 1.-Aguinaldo makes a third effort to confer with General Otis as to terms of peace, but Otis replies to the envoys that he cannot receive such a commission, as that would be in the nature of a recognition of Aguinaldo's government.

2.-Insurgents attack Imus, but are repulsed with heavy loss. American loss, 5 wounded. Preceding this there had been three or four days of desultory fighting, in which a captain and a corporal of the Fourth Infantry were killed and 8 men wounded.

4.-Additional warships are ordered to the Philippines, the armored cruisers Brooklyn, New Orleans and Nashville, and the Badger and Bancroft.

6.-General Frederick D. Grant, with three companies of the Fourteenth Infantry, drives the insurgents from the entire west bank of the Imus River. American loss, 3 men wounded; Filipino loss, 10 killed, wounded not found. Afterward, two companies cross the river and rout a small body of insurgents, of whom 6 are killed.

8.-General Schwan, with Thirteenth Infantry, one battalion of Fourteenth Infantry, two troops cavalry, and Captain Riley's battery of the Fifth Artillery, advance from Bacoor and occupy Cavite Viejo and Noveleta, losing 1 officer mortally wounded and 2 officers and 9 privates wounded. The gunboats Wheeling, Petrel and Callas throw shells into Noveleta and Santa Cruz, and afterward land a force of marines who advance toward Noveleta, fighting, and at length burn the town. Captain Cowles's battalion of the Fourth Infantry drives insurgents from near San Nicolas. American loss, 4 men slightly wounded; Filipino loss, 6 killed, wounded not found.

9.-General Schwan's force advances to Malabon, the stronghold of the insurgents in that province, garrisoned, as reported, by 5,000 of the enemy. From La Loma Church, 4 miles from Manila. a body of insurgents opens fire on the Twenty-fifth Infantry, and in an hour's engagement at 1,200 yards distance, one American is wounded and the enemy retreats. General Schwan's column enters Malabon.

12.-General Young takes Arayat.

13.-General Schwan's command reoccupies Imus, which town was evacuated subsequent to its capture, June 15.

17.-Insurgents driven out of Porac by Colonel Bell's regiment.

18.-General Otis receives an offer purporting to come from General Pio del Pilar, offering to surrender Aguinaldo and the Filipino army for $500,000. Macabebes disperse insurgents at San Mateo.

19.-General Young occupies San Isidro after hard fight at San Fernando.

26.-Insurgents defeated by General Young at Tuboatin River.

27.-Tulisanes bandits near San Carlos defeated and dispersed by Captain Simond.

28.-General Young takes Santa Rosa.

30.-Major Ballance's battalion takes Cabanatuan.

NOVEMBER 2.-Aguinaldo issues a proclamation.

4.-Bongbong taken. About 800 Filipinos enter the town of Vigan and attack LieutenantColonel Parker's force of 153 sick and footsore men, and a four hours' fight ensues before they are driven out, leaving 40 dead and 32 prisoners. American loss, 8 men killed and 3 wounded. 5.-General Young, with a strong force of infantry, cavalry and artillery, encounters the enemy 12 miles east of Vigan and drives them eastward.

7.-General Wheaton lands his force, 2,700 men, on the shore of the Gulf of Lingayen, against considerable opposition, and takes up his line of march for Dagupan.

8.-General MacArthur occupies Mabacalat.

10. It is reported that Aguinaldo has changed his seat of government from Tarlac to Bayombong.

12.-Colonel Bell's regiment and a small cavalry force occupy Tarlac.

14.-Five miles from San Fabian, Colonel Howe, with the Thirty-third Infantry and a detachment of the Thirteenth, with a Gatling gun, have a sharp two hours' engagement, in which Major John A. Logan and 6 men are killed and 1 officer and 12 men are wounded.

15.--At San Nicolas, Lieutenant Johnston, with Troop M. Third Cavalry, captures 12 barrels containing the wardrobe of Aguinaldo's wife and the records of the Filipino Secretary of War. At Tayug, Colonel Wessels captures a large quantity of foodstuffs, Filipino uniforms and Mauser shells.

18.-General MacArthur occupies Gerona.

20.-General Wheaton's advance guard enters Dagupan.

24.-Senor Bautista, President of the Filipino Congress, presents himself to General MacArthur and renounces all further connection with the insurrection, and defections from the cause seem to multiply rapidly.

25.-General Lawton captures $75,000 at Tayug and releases from the Filipinos a number of Spanish prisoners.

26. Rear Admiral Watson announces to the Secretary of the Navy the unconditional surrender of the insurgents of the province of Zamboanga, Mindanao, on November 18.

27.-Colonel J. Franklin Bell, with a strong force, after a forced march from Mangalaren, comes upon the advance guard of the enemy in the province of Pagasinan, 2,000 strong, and the entire force flees, leaving in Bell's possession some pieces of artillery, many Mauser and Remington rifles, 1,000 rounds of ammunition and other spoils.

DECEMBER 2.-Lieutenant Munro, with a troop of 50 men of the Fourth Cavalry, captures Bayombong. 5.-General Young, with 3 companies of infantry and 3 troops of cavalry, on his way to Vigan, encounters General Tino, commanding a numerous army between Narvadan and San Quinto, strongly posted, and after five hours' fighting, during which he was reinforced by a battalion of the Thirty-third Infantry, he routed the enemy, who left 25 dead, many rifles and thousands of rounds of ammunition. American loss, 1 man wounded.

9. Major March's battalion of the Third Infantry, sent in pursuit of General Pio del Pilar, encounters his force and totally defeats it, inflicting a loss of 70 killed and wounded. American loss, 1 killed and 6 wounded.

11.-General Tirona, commanding for Aguinaldo in the rich province of Cayagan, surrenders the entire territory to Captain McCalla, of the U. S. Navy.

18.-Colonel Hare's column of Young's command rescues Lieutenant Gillmore and his men, at Bauna, in North Ilocos, who had been in wretched imprisonment since April 12th.

19.-General Henry W. Lawton, U. S. Volunteers, having started the night before from Manila, with the Eleventh Cavalry and battalions of the Twenty-seventh and Twenty-ninth Infantry, to capture San Mateo, held by a force of 300 Filipinos, is shot dead while standing in front of his troops, the enemy being concealed.

26.-General Young appointed Military Governor of Northwestern Luzon, with headquarters at Vigan.

1900.

JANUARY 1.-General advance of American troops southward begins. Generals Schwan and Wheaton, with separate columns, attack insurgents on the shores of Laguna de Bay. Engagements are frequent throughout the month.

12.-General Otis reports that all Cavite Province is occupied by his troops.

FEBRUARY.-During this month President McKinley appointed a new Philippine Commismission, consisting of Judge William H. Taft, of Ohio (president); Professor Dean C. Worcester, of the University of Michigan; General Luke E. Wright, of Tennessee; Henry C. Ide, of Vermont, and Professor Bernard Moses, of the University of California.

MARCH.-There was continued activity among the insurgents during this month. and it was stated that lack of troops made it impossible to keep garrisons in all the towns taken by the American forces.

27.-Order issued by the Secretary of War making the Philippine Islands the Military Division of the Pacific, with four Departments. General Otis placed in supreme command.

APRIL.-Early during this month General Montengro, commanding insurgent troops, surrendered to Colonel Smith, of the Seventeenth Infantry, in the province of Pagasinan.

From the 15th to the 224 the Filipinos lost in various engagements 378 killed, 12 officers and 244 men captured, and many wounded. Americans killed numbered 3.

7.-General Otis relieved from command in Philippines at his own request, General Arthur MacArthur succeeding him.

MAY 6.-General Pataleon Garcia, a prominent Filipino leader. captured at Jaen, near San Isidro. 7.-General Young reports the return of Aguinaldo to the field of operations. Five hundred insurgents attack 25 scouts of the Forty-eighth Infantry at San Jacinto, but are routed, losing 10 killed. American loss, 2 killed.

14. Eighty men of the Fortieth Volunteer Infantry, commanded by Captain Elliott, rout 500 insurgents at Agusan, killing 52 and capturing rifles and ammunition.

18.-Near Malibicong. Ilicos, American troops fight a force of Filipinos, killing Captain Tinio, nephew of General Tinio, and 23 men, and capturing some prisoners, with rifles, horses and saddles. The Americans sustain no loss.

22.-Two companies of insurgents surrender to Colonel Emerson H. Liscum, at Tarlac. The prisoners number 169, including a major, a captain and 4 lieutenants, who give up 168 good rifles with ammunition.

27. At Cuyapo, 3 insurgent officers and 56 men surrender.

29.-Insurgents attack the American garrison at San Miguel de Mayamo, kill 5 of them, wound 7 and take Captain Charles D. Roberts prisoner.

30.-The insurgent Governor of Benguet, a devoted friend of Aguinaldo, is captured at Allit. JUNE 8.-Capture of General Pio del Pilar, falsely reported killed on December 9, 1899; he is taken at San Pedro Macati, near Manila.

10.-Orders are issued for the formation of four troops of native cavalry (Macabebes), to be commanded by American officers.

12.-General Fred Grant reports the capture of an insurgent stronghold in the mountains east of Samiguet. Luzon." General Hizon is captured near Mexico, and General Cavestany near Alcala-both important persons.

21.-General MacArthur issues a proclamation of amnesty with unconditional pardon for Filipino insurgents who surrender within 90 days.

30.-Reported that within the past week a number of small engagements have taken place, that General Tino's barracks have been burned and his correspondence captured, and that at Angeles, General Aquino has surrendered to General Fred Grant. Loss on both sides but slight.

JULY 4-A detachment of United States troops, in pursuit of insurgents, kill 12 near Delta Rio Grande, and lose 3 killed and 2 wounded. During the week ended July 8, 11 Americans are killed and 16 wounded; Filipinos lose 160 killed.

21.-Report published giving facts as to a band of Filipino conspirators discovered in San Miguel, engaged in planning an uprising in Manila against the Americans.

AUGUST 1.-Colonel Grassa, with 1 major, 6 captains, 6 lieutenants and 160 men, having more than a hundred rifles and 50 bolos, surrenders to Colonel Freeman of the Twenty-fourth Infantry, near Tayug.

SEPTEMBER 16.-During the past two weeks, 10 natives in Luzon and the Visayas have been killed by hostile Filipinos because they favored American rule or were members of the municipal governments established by Americans. To-day 1,000 insurgents and 134 men of the Fifteenth and Thirty-seventh United States Infantry have a desperate engagement at Siniloan, in which the Americans lose 24 killed, among them Captain David D. Mitchell and Lieutenant George A. Cooper: 19 wounded and 5 missing, believed to be dead. Insurgent bands are active in attacking small garrisons and outposts, destroying small villages friendly to the Americans, cutting telegraph lines, etc.

19.-General MacArthur reports a number of small affairs in Isabella Province, Ilocan Province, and elsewhere. 28.-Captain Devereux Shields, Twenty-ninth Infantry, with 52 men, is reported as captured after a fight of several hours at Boag, Marinduque Island.

OCTOBER 15.-General MacArthur reports success of an expedition to Marinduque by General Hare, and the rescue of Captain Shields and his men.

DECEMBER 2.--Oath of allegiance to the United States taken by 2,200 fighting insurgents.

The war had become a desultory contest, with guerillas in the less accessible parts of the islands, in 1901. The Federal party, organized among the Filipinos late in 1900, to favor American rule, petitioned Congress in January to authorize the President to establish civil government in the Philippines. Aguinaldo was captured on March 23, and took the oath of allegiance on April 2. Municipal civil government was established at Manila May 3. On June 21 President McKinley promulgated an order establishing civil government in the islands and appointed Judge William H. Taft Governor. The civil government was inaugurated at Manila with imposing ceremonies on July 4. On the same date Major-General MacArthur turned over the military authority to his successor, Major-General Chaffee. In his annual report to the War Department, dated July 4, 1901, General MacArthur stated that between May 5, 1900, and June 30, 1901, there were 1,026 meetings between American troops and insurgents, with the following causalties: Americans killed, 245; wounded, 490; captured, 118; missing, 20. Insurgents killed, 2,854; wounded, 1,193; captured, 6,572; surrendered, 23,095.

1902.

The pacification of the Philippines was declared complete during the Summer of 1902, and President Roosevelt formally declared the restoration of peace, issuing at the same time, on July 4, a proclamation extending general amnesty to the insurgents in the words which follow:

Now, be it known that I. Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the power and authority vested in me by the Constitution, do hereby proclaim and declare, without reservation or condition, except as hereinafter provided, a full and complete pardon and amnesty to all persons in the Philippine archipelago who have participated in the insurrections aforesaid, or who have given aid and comfort to persons participating in said insurrections, for the offences of treason or sedition, and for all offences political in their character committed in the course of such insurrections pursuant to orders issued by the civil or military insurrectionary authorities, or which grew out of internal political feuds or dissensions between Filipinos and Spaniards or the Spanish authorities, or which resulted from internal political feuds or dissensions among the Filipinos themselves during either of said insurrections.

Provided, however, that the pardon and amnesty hereby granted shall not include such persons committing crimes since May first, nineteen hundred and two, in any province of the archipelago in which at the time civil government was established, nor shall it include such persons