Chapter 30Grace made fresh coffee for the men of the Third
Cavalry Regiment, and Manfred and I described our harrowing night
fending off looters. Then the cavalrymen rode off, heading for
Tondo where fresh American troops were counter-attacking. Within a
couple of hours, the insurgents withdrew from Tondo and retreated
north. Later that afternoon, Manfred and I took a ride to the area
to see the damage. The city was a wasteland of burned-out houses
and rubble. Bodies of insurgents were still scattered everywhere,
some burned beyond recognition or blown apart by the crushing naval
bombardment of the previous night. During the next few days, the
bodies of some five hundred Filipino insurgents were collected from
the streets and roads leading into Manila. Thirty-nine American
sold
