{"id":663,"date":"2016-11-09T05:31:16","date_gmt":"2016-11-09T05:31:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thelittlecolonel.com\/index.php\/one-of-general-lawton-most-notable-achievements\/"},"modified":"2024-04-19T15:03:30","modified_gmt":"2024-04-19T15:03:30","slug":"one-of-general-lawton-most-notable-achievements","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/thelittlecolonel.com\/index.php\/one-of-general-lawton-most-notable-achievements\/","title":{"rendered":"One of General Lawton Most Notable Achievements"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"rtecenter\">(Photos accompanying an&nbsp;article on General Lawton, our &#8220;Uncle Henry,&#8221; in the Philippines<br \/>\nSpanish American War, From Leslie&#8217;s Weekly, Jan 6, 1900, pages 8 &amp; 9)<\/p>\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><strong><span style=\"font-size:18px\">One of General Lawton Most Notable Achievements<br \/>\nThe Santa Cruz Expedition, which he carried out with Magnificent Success<\/span><br \/>\nAnd in which he overwhelmingly defeated the Filipinos<\/strong><br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/thelittlecolonel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/DepartureofTroops-0.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-652\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/thelittlecolonel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/DepartureofTroops_small.jpg\" style=\"border-style:solid; border-width:1px; height:132px; width:217px\" width=\"217\" height=\"132\" \/><\/a><\/strong><br \/>\nGeneral Lawton supervising the departure of his troops on the Santa Cruz Expedition<\/p>\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thelittlecolonel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/EnteringLagunadeBay-0.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-655\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/thelittlecolonel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/EnteringLagunadeBay_small.jpg\" style=\"border-style:solid; border-width:1px; height:132px; width:215px\" width=\"215\" height=\"132\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nGeneral Lawton on his launch entering Laguna de Bay with his troops and cascoes following<\/p>\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thelittlecolonel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/AguinaldoMonument-0.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-657\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/thelittlecolonel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/AguinaldoMonument_small.jpg\" style=\"border-style:solid; border-width:1px; height:128px; width:124px\" width=\"124\" height=\"128\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nThe Monument to Aguinaldo, at Pagsanjan<\/p>\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thelittlecolonel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/BattleofSantaCruz-0-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-659\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/thelittlecolonel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/BattleofSantaCruz_small.jpg\" style=\"border-style:solid; border-width:1px; height:84px; width:434px\" width=\"434\" height=\"84\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thelittlecolonel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/BattleofSantaCruz_small.jpg 434w, https:\/\/thelittlecolonel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/BattleofSantaCruz_small-300x58.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 434px) 100vw, 434px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nPicking up the dead and wounded after the bloody battle of Santa Cruz<\/p>\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><a href=\"sites\/default\/files\/LeadingtheTroops-SantaCruz-0l.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-660\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/thelittlecolonel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/LeadingtheTroops-SantaCruz_small.jpg\" style=\"border-style:solid; border-width:1px; height:164px; width:225px\" width=\"225\" height=\"164\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nGeneral Lawton fearlessly leading his troops, under fire, across the iron bridge leading to Santa Cruz<\/p>\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thelittlecolonel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/DeathatSanMateo-0.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-662\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/thelittlecolonel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/DeathatSanMateo_small.jpg\" style=\"border-style:solid; border-width:1px; height:164px; width:196px\" width=\"196\" height=\"164\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nThe death of General Lawton at San Mateo. &#8211;He died for his country<\/p>\n<p>Go to the next page of photos from this issue<\/p>\n<p>See General Lawton&#8217;s own report on the Battle for Santa Cruz and the Laguna Expedition<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thelittlecolonel.com\/index.php\/articles-and-documents-on-general-lawton\/\">Return to the General Lawton articles menu<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The General Lawton, Spanish-American War Photo Album<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Photos accompanying an&nbsp;article on General Lawton, our &#8220;Uncle Henry,&#8221; in the Philippines Spanish American War, From Leslie&#8217;s Weekly, Jan 6, 1900, pages 8 &amp; 9) One of General Lawton Most Notable Achievements The Santa Cruz Expedition, which he carried out with Magnificent Success And in which he overwhelmingly defeated the Filipinos &nbsp; General Lawton supervising [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":652,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-663","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelittlecolonel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/663","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelittlecolonel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelittlecolonel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelittlecolonel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelittlecolonel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=663"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thelittlecolonel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/663\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1931,"href":"https:\/\/thelittlecolonel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/663\/revisions\/1931"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelittlecolonel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelittlecolonel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}