File:Balangiga Bells.jpg

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English: U.S. soldiers of Company C, 9th Infantry Regiment who survived a Filipino ambush in 1901 pose in Calbayog, Samar with a church bell used to signal the attack. The young boy, named Francesco, accompanied the men back to New York.[1]. The bells were taken as a war trophy to the United States.
Date circa 1901
date QS:P,+1901-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
Source Brown, Fred R. (1909) History of the Ninth U.S. Infantry, 1799–1909, Chicago: R. R. Donnelley & Sons Co., p. 579
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  1. ↑ McKinnon Jr., Daniel W. (2018) The Bells of San Lorenzo de Martir[1] (PDF), Veterans of Foreign Wars Wyoming

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