[203] On the following day Cailles reported that he had occupied blockhouse No.

12, which was within the American lines, and added the following significant statement:-- "The order of yesterday was, on hearing the first shots from Santa Ana, for my whole force to hurl themselves on the American line of trenches, and to follow the living to Manila.

The dead can lie with the dead.

Yesterday we were content waiting for the arming of the San Quintin." [204] San Quintin's Day was the anniversary of the Sicilian vespers, the massacre of the French in Sicily in 1268.

Obviously the Insurgents were planning something similar for Manila.
For some reason the attack was not made as planned, but there was no intention of abandoning it.