Jacob H. Smith


General Jacob Hurd Smith was a United States Army officer notorious for ordering an indiscriminate retaliatory attack on a group of Filipinos during the PhilippineAmerican War, in which American soldiers killed between 2,500 and 50,000 civilians. His orders included, kill everyone over the age of ten and make the island a howling wilderness. Courtmartialed for the incident, he was dubbed Hell Roaring Jake Smith, The Monster, and Howling Jake by the press as a result.

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