I do not remember; but it is very likely.

I did not want to see a lot of them killed unnecessarily, because I knew they could not take that walled city.

They had no artillery, and they could not take it, I knew very well, and I wanted the situation to remain as it was until our troops came to occupy it.
"_Senator Patterson_.

But you found that whenever you expressed a strong objection to anything being done at that time that Aguinaldo yielded to your request?
"_Admiral Dewey_.

Up to the time the army came he did everything I requested.