{"id":689,"date":"2016-11-09T05:54:21","date_gmt":"2016-11-09T05:54:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thelittlecolonel.com\/index.php\/brave-general-lawtons-last-campaign\/"},"modified":"2024-04-19T15:03:30","modified_gmt":"2024-04-19T15:03:30","slug":"brave-general-lawtons-last-campaign","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/thelittlecolonel.com\/index.php\/brave-general-lawtons-last-campaign\/","title":{"rendered":"Brave General Lawton’s Last Campaign"},"content":{"rendered":"

(Photos accompanying an article on General Lawton, our “Uncle Henry,” in the Philippines
\nSpanish American War, From Leslie’s Weekly, Jan 6, 1900, pages 14 & 15)<\/p>\n

Brave General Lawton’s Last Campaign<\/span>
\nHis Vigorous Pursuit of Aguinaldo, Which Drove the Latter into the Fastness of the Mountains
\nWith only a Narrow Escape From Capture<\/span><\/em>
\nFrom Photographs Taken Especially for “Leslie’s Weekly” by E. C. Rost<\/strong><\/p>\n

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GENERAL LAWTON AND STAFF
\n1. Captain Brooke.  2. Captain Sewall.  3. Captain King  
\n4. Major Edwards.  5. General Lawton.  6. Major Starr.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
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\n\t\t\tCascoes, with soldiers for General Lawton’s Campaign, towed by the “Tin Clad” “Laguna de Bay” up the Pasig River to Lake Laguna de Bay<\/a><\/td>\n		\"\"
\n\t\t\tAngeles, through which General Lawton passed through on his famous trip to the north culminating at Mount Arayat<\/a><\/td>\n		\"\"
\n\t\t\tAngeles, With Mount Arayat in the distance, the farthest point north reached by General Lawton on his flying campaign.<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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\n\t\t\tNatives clamoring at Provost Marshal’s headquarters for passes to leave San Fernando, after Lawton captured the place.<\/a><\/td>\n		\"\"
\n\t\t\tRoad leaving San Fernando and bridge over which Lawton passed in his northern campaign, in pursuit of Aguinaldo<\/a><\/td>\n		\"\"
\n\t\t\tView on the San Juan River north of San Fernando, on the route of General Lawton’s northward journey<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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\n\t\t\tLawton’s troops at mess\u2014soldiers destitute of shoes and hats, some without overshirts.<\/a><\/td>\n		\"\"
\n\t\t\tCalamba, on Laguna de Bay, the first town captured by Lawton during his last campaign<\/a><\/td>\n		\"\"
\n\t\t\tFilipino prisoners captured by General Lawton amusing themselves at Fort Santiago, Manila.<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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\n\t\t\tGeneral Lawton’s “Bull Train” with provisions and halted on the road for rest.<\/a><\/td>\n		\"\"
\n\t\t\tHardships of Lawton’s campaign in the rainy season.<\/a><\/td>\n		\"\"
\n\t\t\tCemetery at Paco, where our brave heroes are buried. 
\n\t\t\t\u2014This is near San Mateo, where General Lawton was killed.<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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Go to the first page of photos from this issue<\/a><\/p>\n

See General Lawton’s own report on the Battle for Santa Cruz and the Laguna Expedition<\/p>\n

Return to the General Lawton articles menu<\/a><\/p>\n

The General Lawton, Spanish-American War Photo Album<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

(Photos accompanying an article on General Lawton, our “Uncle Henry,” in the Philippines Spanish American War, From Leslie’s Weekly, Jan 6, 1900, pages 14 & 15) Brave General Lawton’s Last Campaign His Vigorous Pursuit of Aguinaldo, Which Drove the Latter into the Fastness of the Mountains With only a Narrow Escape From Capture From Photographs Taken […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":664,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-689","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelittlecolonel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/689","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=689"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thelittlecolonel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/689\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1932,"href":"https:\/\/thelittlecolonel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/689\/revisions\/1932"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelittlecolonel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/664"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelittlecolonel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}