biography
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| lived:
| (1865–1917)
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| biography:
| US soldier, born in New Carlisle, Ohio, USA. The son of a farmer and a five-term congressman known as ‘Fog Horn’ Funston, he was trained as a botanist. In 1896–7 he served as a volunteer with the Cubans revolting against Spain. As a volunteer in the US Army, he fought in the Philippine insurrection that followed the Spanish-American War (1899–1901). Promoted to brigadier general, he led a small unit that captured the Philippine leader Emilio Aguinaldo in his camp in March 1901. He commanded the US Army forces that seized Veracruz (1914) during the revolutionary unrest in Mexico, and spent the remainder of his career commanding troops on the US border with Mexico. |
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