Summary of "Comments on Moro Massacre" by Mark Twain

Summery of Comments of Moro Massacre by Mark twain. On March 12th nineteen hundred and six (1906) Mark Twain, celebrated american writer made a work called comments of the Moro massacre. This work concerned the engagement of five hundred and forty (540) U.S Army men with auxiliaries and the Moro of the Philippines which where six hundred in number. The man leading the U.S armed force Major General Leonard Wood and the U.S soldiers were armed with the latest assault rifles and small fire arms of their time, and artillery. The moro were villagers with clubs and other bludgeoning devices, machetes and crude muskets. The battle occurred in a crater. The moro were situated in the crater and american forces attacking, and the depth was fifty (50) feet. Before the battle began Major General Woods gave the command “Kill or capture the six hundred.” The battle began with both sides exchanging fire and the americans adding artillery to the engagement while the moro throwing bricks as their projectiles. Mark Twain reintegrates Maj. Gen. Woods order to “kIll the savages.” The battle was fought at a high pace and it ended in complete american victory. And Mark Twain remarks that the completeness of the victory was evident in that not one of the moro survived. The official report praised the troops with words like “heroism” and “gallantry” while morning the 15 soldiers lost and the thirty two men injured, but inadequately describing the nature of their injuries. The wounded were said to be scrapes on the elbow and nose. Mark Twain give comparisons of previous battles of the past in which there is only a small percentage of the two opposing forces losses. The moro massacre on the other hand involved a considerable amount of women and children and all perished in the battle. Mark Twain called it “the greatest victory ever achieved by christian soldiers of the United States” What was more astonishing to Mark Twain was the lack of media