Saturday, October 2, 1915. Banditry.

Pueblo Nuevo, Guanajuato was attacked by around 700 armed men on horseback thought to retreating members of Villa's army.  Locals resisted the attack, which amounted to banditry.

Following a drunken knife assault on Finnish immigrant Oscar Carlson in Wrangell, Alaska, a town authorized vigilance committee drove Mexican dock workers out of the town.  One of them was the guilty party, which had asked Carlson to fight or drink with them.  Ultimately, one was arrested and served time for the assault, but not before Mexicans in general had been driven out of the town.

New dockworkers from Mexico would return the following year.

An interesting aspect of this is that I wouldn't have thought there were Mexican dock workers in Alaska at the time.

It was a Saturday.

The childhood style of sailor suits for children is evident here, and is really odd.  It apparently had been started by Queen Victoria dressing her son in a sailor suit for an 1846 trip on the royal yacht.

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Friday, October 1, 1915. Sedicioista raids stop.

Labels: 1910s, 1915, Constitutionalist Army, Mexican Revolution, Mexico, Sedicionistas, Texas, Venustiano Carranza

Saturday, February 2, 1901. Army matters.

Queen Victoria's funeral took place at St George's Chapel in Windsor Castle.

The Kings of the United Kingdom, Germany, Portugal and Greece, and the future kings of Denmark and Sweden were in attendance.

The post Spanish American War United States Army Reorganization Bill was signed into law by President William McKinley. As part of it:

• The United States Army Nurse Corps was established as a permanent part of the United States Army's Medical Department. Women could enlist in the Army for three year terms, but t hey could not be commissioned.
• The Dental Corps was established.

The Army needed modernization, as di the state militia system, and it was receiving it.

Benjamin O. Davis Sr., the first African-American general in the United States Army, was  commissioned a second lieutenant in the U.S. 9th Cavalry. 

Davis had enlisted as a private less than two years earlier and been mentored by Major Charles Young, who, at the time, was the only other black officer in the United States Army. He'd be a pivotal figure in the ultimate integration of the U.S. military, as in fact was Young.

It should be noted that this date is somewhat confusing in regard to Davis' career, as he'd been an officer in the Washington D.C. National Guard in 1898.  He'd been commissioned again during the Spanish American War in the 8th  U.S. Volunteer Infantry.  After being mustered out he'd rejoined the Army as a private, showing a remarkable drive for service in the segregated Army of the time.

Davis in 1945.

He was old for an officer during World War Two, but such a seminal figure that he was retained in service.  He lived until 1970, dying at age 93, outliving both of his wives who predeceased him.  His son by the same name became a general in the U.S. Air Force.  The senior Davis was serving at Ft. D. A. Russell at the time of the younger Davis' birth.

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Tuesday, January 29, 1901. Farewell speech of Congressman George Henry White.

Labels: 1900s, 1901, 57th Congress, North Carolina, Personalities, Racism

Saturday, January 26, 1901. Deported to Guam.

Thirty-two captured Filipino resistance were deported to Guam, including Apolinario Mabini, the first Prime Minister of the First Philippine Republic during its temporary independence from Spain.

It was a Saturday.

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Thursday, January 24, 1901. King of Ireland.

Labels: 1900s, 1901, Boer War, Concentration camps, Ireland, Monarchy, United Kingdom

Monday, July 9, 1900. The Taiyuan Massacre

Shanxi Province Governor Yu-Hsien ordered captive foreign missionaries and their families to be executed. 46, 34 Protestants and 12 Catholics, were.

Catholic missionaries came to Shanxi in 1633, and Protestant churches were established in 1865.

Queen Victoria signed the Act to Constitute the Commonwealth of Australia proclaiming that five of the six colonies (Victoria, South Australia, New South Wales, Tasmania and Queensland) and "if Her Majesty is satisfied that the people of Western Australia have agreed thereto", a sixth would "unite in one indissoluble Federal Commonwealth under the Crown of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland."

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Saturday, July 7, 1900. Martyrs of China.

Labels: 1900, 1900s, Apostolic Christianity, Boxer Rebellion, Catholic, China, Christianity, religion