with the Veteran Army of the Philippines. This would eventually lead to the creation of the Veterans of Foreign Wars. Bandholtz supported the United States colonial government during a period when violent rebellion to American rule continued in the Philippines. He was credited with persuading guerrilla leaders to surrender. In one instance, he entered unarmed into an insurgent camp with a native guide. After he spoke with Colonel Antonio Loamo, Loamo surrendered and gave up seventy men and thirty rifles. Post-Philippines After his service in the Philippines ended in 1913, Bandholtz returned to the US to serve in the US infantry as a major. He was assigned to the 29th Infantry and made commander of Fort Porter, New York. He also served as Chief of Staff in the New York National Guard (later the 27th Division)and traveled to the border of Mexico. In 1917, he was promoted to commander of the 58th Brigade of the 29th Division. He accompanied his unit to France in June of that same year, serving for three months after the US entered the Great War (World War I). On September 27, he was named United States Army Provost Marshal General to General John J. Pershing's American Expeditionary Force in France. He held this position during the rest of the war and until 1919. General Bandholtz reorganized the Military Police Corps, established a Military Police school in Autun, France, and advocated a permanent Military Police Corps following the war. Bandholtz is widely considered to be the "father" of the United States Army's Military Police Corps. Between August 1919 and February 9, 1920, Bandholtz was the US representative to the Inter-Allied Supreme Command's Military Mission in Hungary. The Military Mission was charged with disarming the Hungarian military and supervising the withdrawal of the Serbian and Romanian armies, which were occupying the territory of Hungary. The Allies had promised that people would be able to make self-determination of their futures as Austria-Hungary and other empires were broken up. According to his own accounts, he is said to have prevented the arrest of Hungarian Prime Minister István Friedrich by the Romanians. On August 25, in the MÁVAG factory he intercepted 135 Romanian trucks packed with material despite the prohibition of requisition and prevented the factory from sacking. He is also remembered for preventing the Romanian military authorities from removing artefacts from the Hungarian National Museum on October 5, 1919;