What was Mark Twain talking about?

Question

"...with 600 engaged on each side, we lost 15 men killed outright, and we had 32 wounded-counting nose and elbow. The enemy numbered 600 including women and children - and we abolished them utterly, leaving not a baby alive to cry for its dead mother. This is incomparably the greatest victory ever achieved by the christian soldiers of the United States..."

Answer 1

A massacre in the Philippines in 1924.