When the United States took control of the Philippines after the Spanish-American War in 1898, one of the first things the U.S. did was send in American teachers.
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故事中的英雄，就是安德鲁·罗文，一个送信人，美国陆军的一位年轻的中尉。当时美西战争爆发。
The hero of the story, the man who carried the message, was Colonel Andrew Summers Rowan, who, when the Spanish-American War broke out, was a young lieutenant in the United States Army.
Though he opposed it at first, McKinley brought the country to war with Spain in 1898 as Pulitzer and Hearst's "yellow journalism" juiced the nation's appetite for a fight.
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