This made the American soldiers surrender and President Roosevelt orderer General MacArthur to leave the Philippines and go to Australia to regroup the army. Those Americans that were still in the country and at the Bataan Peninsula were captured and they were made to walk 80 miles in the jungle to go to a prisoner of war camp. This march is called the Bataan Death March, 60,000 soldiers were captured and more than 10,000 died in the March due to exposure, disease or very cruel treatment from their captors. True False