Khác biệt giữa bản sửa đổi của “William Rufus Shafter”

[[File:William R. Shafter headstone.JPG|thumb|Shafter's headstone at San Francisco National Cemetery]]

 

With disease rampant in the American army in Cuba, Shafter and many of his officers favored a quick withdrawal from Cuba. Shafter personally left Cuba in September 1898, and after a stay in quarantine at [[Camp Wikoff]], Shafter returned to command the [[Department of California]]. There he oversaw the supplying of the expedition to the Philippines. In January 1900, Shafter offered the following opinion on the [[Philippine–American War|war in the Philippines]]: "My plan would be to disarm the natives of the Philippine Islands, even if I have to kill half of them to do it. Then I would treat the rest of them with perfect justice."<ref>{{cite book|title=The Triumph of Tagalog and the Dominance of the Discourse on English: Language Politics in the Philippines during the American Colonial Period|url=http://scholarbank.nus.edu.sg/handle/10635/16861|accessdate=24 March 2014|website=ScholarBank@NUS|date=2009}}</ref>