The wisdom of this course was subsequently fully established by the fact that when the troops at my command carried the Spanish entrenchments, extending from the sea to the Pasay road on the extreme Spanish right, we were under no obligation, by prearranged plans of the mutual attack, to turn to the right and clear the front still held by the insurgents, but were able to move forward at once and occupy the city and the suburbs.'" [183] All that the Insurgents and the Americans ever had in common was an enemy.

They each fought that enemy in their own way.

There was no cooeperation.

On the part of the Insurgents there was treachery.

I will submit further evidence of this fact..