Jacob H. Smith
✓ Source-basedfallingUnited States Army general in the Philippine-American War
United StatesLived 1840 to 1918 · aged 78Fame46.1
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General Jacob Hurd Smith was a U.S. Army officer notorious for ordering indiscriminate retaliation on the island of Samar in response to what is called the Balangiga massacre during the Philippine-American War.
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Smith in Tacloban, Philippines, 1901
Smith with Major General Adna Chaffee in Tacoblan, Leyte, 1902
The San Francisco Call, 26 April 1902![Smith's order "Kill Everyone Over Ten" became a caption in the New York Journal cartoon on May 5, 1902. The Old Glory draped an American shield on which a vulture replaced the bald eagle. The caption at the bottom proclaimed, "Criminals Because They Were Born Ten Years Before We Took the Philippines." Smith's conduct of this campaign eventually resulted in his court-martial.[1]](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/90/Editorial_cartoon_about_Jacob_Smith%27s_retaliation_for_Balangiga.PNG/1280px-Editorial_cartoon_about_Jacob_Smith%27s_retaliation_for_Balangiga.PNG)
Smith's order "Kill Everyone Over Ten" became a caption in the New York Journal cartoon on May 5, 1902. The Old Glory draped an American shield on which a vulture replaced the bald eagle. The caption at the bottom proclaimed, "Criminals Because They Were Born Ten Years Before We Took the Philippines." Smith's conduct of this campaign eventually resulted in his court-martial.[1]About this person
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Lived 1840 to 1918 · aged 78
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