Fagen
University of Wisconsin Press (Verlag)
978-0-299-31940-3 (ISBN)
In 1898, in an era of racial terror at home and imperial conquest abroad, the United States sent its troops to suppress the Filipino struggle for independence, including three regiments of the famed African American ""Buffalo Soldiers."" Among them was David Fagen, a twenty-year-old private in the Twenty-Fourth Infantry, who deserted to join the Filipino guerrillas. He led daring assaults and ambushes against his former comrades and commanders—who relentlessly pursued him without success—and his name became famous in the Philippines and in the African American community.
The outlines of Fagen's legend have been known for more than a century, but the details of his military achievements, his personal history, and his ultimate fate have remained a mystery—until now. Michael Morey tracks Fagen's life from his youth in Tampa as a laborer in a phosphate camp through his troubled sixteen months in the army, and, most importantly, over his long-obscured career as a guerrilla officer. Morey places this history in its larger military, political, and social context to tell the story of the young renegade whose courage and defiance challenged the supremacist assumptions of the time.
Michael Morey is a writer and independent historian. He lives in Sonoma County, California.
List of Illustrations
Preface
Introduction
Part One: The Young Man from Tampa
1 The Young Man from Tampa
2 Santiago
3 The Far Side of the World
4 Westward
5 The Waiting Game
6 Permissions to Hate
7 Benevolent Assimilation
8 Snowbound
9 “Fighting Fred” Funston
10 Slander
11 Stalemate
12 Sequoia
13 The White Man’s Burden
14 Aguinaldo Adrift
15 Over the Hill
Part Two: Renegade
16 Another Kind of War
17 Billet Doux
18 The Death of Captain Godfrey
19 “The Afro-American Traitor Called David”
20 Urbano Lacuna
21 Mount Corona
22 Alstaetter
23 Funston’s Great Roundup
24 Sergeant Washington and Captain Fagen
25 Fall Offensive
26 Old Scores
27 “General Fagan”
28 “Negritos Soldados”
29 “The Courage of His Convictions”
30 Alstaetter Revisited
31 A Christmas Souvenir
32 The Revolution Falters
33 The Road to Palanan
34 Surrender
Part Three: Ladrone
35 Ladrone
36 The Renegade Comes to Town
37 A People’s War
38 “The Old Arch-Renegade Fagan”
Afterword
A Note on Sources
Notes
Index
| Erscheinungsdatum | 16.01.2019 |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | 16 black & white illustrations, 3 maps |
| Verlagsort | Wisconsin |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
| Gewicht | 618 g |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Allgemeines / Lexika |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte | |
| Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-299-31940-7 / 0299319407 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-299-31940-3 / 9780299319403 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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