Note 20 — Chapter XV · Governor Taft—1901–2
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Sixty-six men and three officers were surprised at breakfast and cut off from their guns by several hundred bolo men who had come into town as unarmed natives under pretence of attending a church fiesta. Forty-five men and officers were killed after a desperate resistance. Twenty-four only were able to escape. War Department Report, 1901, vol. i., pt. 8, p. 8.