John R. M. Taylor
John Roger Meigs Taylor was a captain of the US 14th Infantry. He was placed in charge of what became known as the Philippine Insurgent Records. That is, the collection of documents seized from Philippine revolutionaries during the Philippine–American War.
Taylor was a West Point graduate of 1889 and served in the Boxer Rebellion in China in 1899. Subsequently he was transferred to the Philippines in the same year. General Elwell Otis, Military Governor of the Philippines, instructed him to collate original documents captured from "insurgents' and to translate them for the US War Department and the US Senate.
Read more about John R. M. Taylor: The "Insurgent Papers", Re-evaluation
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