Note 1 — Chapter XI · Otis and the War
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“The thing is on,” said General Hughes, Provost Marshal of Manila, to General Otis, at Malacañan palace, on the night of February 4, 1899, about half past eight o’clock, as soon as the firing started.1 He was talking about something which every American in Manila except General Otis had for months frankly recognized as inevitable—the war.