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The Burns Archive is an interestinhg collection of photos collected from all over the worl by a New York opthalmologist. This slideshow has a few examples from what is probably a very interesting collection.
Very interesting collection. I had never seen images like that before, such as the odd one of the mother posing with her dead child, or of the group of men intentionally wounding another man like it's an old version of “fight club”. These photographs would be good starting points for research papers on specific cultural practices in the 19th century.
I never knew of the Phillipine-American war. That was a lot of lives taken.
Are you serious? ??? It is more commonly known as the Philippine Insurrection, Philippine-American War is the new, post-colonial, name given to the conflict.
Those are actually typical casualty ratios when the forces are so unmatched in capability. In Vietnam we had around 59,000 dead; the numbers for the Vietcong/NVA are somewhere around a 1 to 1.5 million, no one knows for sure. I am just surprised you had never of it. The Insurrection was a result of the American annexation of the Philippines from Spain in 1899 after the Spanish-American War. The unit I deployed to Iraq with has a Moro sword on the unit crest from its participation in putting down the insurrection.
I knew there was something in the Philippines, but I never realized it was so big and lasted for 4 or 5 years.
An example of America getting into colonialism. We failed at it miserably thank God.
You think so? Every Philippino I have ever met was thankful for America and what we did for them both during their time as a posession and afterwards. MacArthur is looked on as a national hero in the Philippines.Don, you are not falling into the post-colonial mindeset trap are you? 🙂
