Subtitle: A Complete History of All the Military Organizations in Which Utah Men Served … General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1900 Original Publisher: W.F. Ford Subjects: Spanish-American War, 1898 Philippines Utah Philippine American War, 1899-1902 United States History / Military / United States History / United States / General History / Asia / Southeast Asia Travel / United States / West / Mountain Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: CHAPTER I. GENERAL CAUSES LEADING UP TO THE WAR BETWEEN SPAIN AND THE UNITED STATES – THE BATTLE OF MANILA ONE OF THE DECISIVE RATTLES OF THE WORLD. Of the decisive battles of the world,“ according to Crae- sey, all but two were fought between men of different and distinct races, and these exceptions arc the Seige of Syracuse and the American Saratoga, Hnt it is quite questionable if the battle of Saratoga was decisive in any such sense as was Marathon, Arbele, Metaurus or even Waterloo. Whatever be the cause or causes, the fact is indisputable, that a given race is the product of an enormous evolution carried on through enormous stretches of time. This process of racial genesis is governed by laws as definite and fixed as those which rule over the development of the individual, and when the racial type is once attained it remains as fixed and stereotyped as does a matured man’s character. The racial character of a people can no more change than an old man’s disposition. If is beyond the scope of this work to attempt any analysis of the causes which have made the negroid races differ from the mongoloid, or the Semite from the Aryan, or the Celtic from the Teutonic. The fact remains that, apart from the possession of some common…
