MacArthur's Response to the Philippine Insurgency

Arthur MacArthur was father of Douglas, the future general and supreme commander for the Allied powers in the Pacific. Papa MacArthur had led the charge against the Spaniards on land, allied with Filipino rebels fighting the Spanish. Arthur MacArthur struggled to put down the Philippine insurgency and wrote purple letters to McKinley. He asked for more resources to dominate Manila and the Philippines where the rebellion was growing violent.