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Wesley Merritt
Wesley Merritt was a United States Army general who served as a cavalry commander in the American Civil War and later in the wars against Native Americans of the West. In 1898 he commanded the expedition to the Philippines during the Spanish–American War, took Manila in August and became the first American military governor of the islands. He then advised the American delegation negotiating the Treaty of Paris.
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