Pershing was a General in the US Army, not the Marines
Coincidentally, I’ve just finished reading ‘The Moro War’ by James R. Arnold.
The war against the muslim moros was fought from 1903-1913 and was a protracted, bloody war that pit carbines, pistols and cannons against knives and blunderbusses. This didn’t make it any easier as the moros fought savagely.
Pershing didn’t spend much time in moroland; rather, Leonard Wood was the domineering American figure in that war fought to achieve the complete subjugation of the multitudinous muslim princes. Many thousands of moros were killed in that ten year war which would have ended much earlier had the enemy been one other than the moro.
It was a most interesting chapter in the history of the U. S. Army, especially, and the other forces of America in a more minor role.
I’m reminded of how after we dispatched Osama bin Laden....we gave him a Muslim funeral—as if he had been an honorable opponent.
Bizarre.
He was a great General. And he had some great tragedies in his personal life.
http://www.westernfrontassociation.com/great-war-on-land/71-gen-ls/325-black-jack-pers.html
“The Story of General Pershing”
by EVERETT T. TOMLINSON (published in 1919)
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/31914/31914-h/31914-h.htm#Page_1
I remember the Pershing Rifles performing at LSU when I was there eons ago. I never knew what that was all about. This is a story I never get tired of hearing. Even his name “Black Jack” would not be allowed today much less his fighting style. He would be one of those who Henry V would have unleashed, “The Dogs of War”.
My goodness. They don’t teach that at the war college. Fight to win or get out.