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R E P O R T
of an
E X P E D I T I O N
to the
PROVINCE of LA LAGUNA, LUZON, PHILIPPINE ISLANDS,
April 8th to April 17th 1899
by
MAJOR GENERAL H. W. LAWTON, U. S. VOLUNTEERS,
COMMANDING
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65/34(Letter from Colonel Barry to General Lawton.)
34.-35.
APPENDIX 24.Headquarters Department of the Pacific and Eighth Army Corps,
Manila, P. I., April 12, 1899.
Major General H. W, Lawton, U. S. Vols.,
Commanding Troops, Laguna de Bay.General:-
I am directed to inform you that your communication of yesterday has been received, and to say in reply that the launch 'Norte" is now being coaled and will leave before noon for Santa Cruz with dredge in tow.
You can move your forces to Calamba if you fully protect the troops you leave behind with dredge. From the nature and strength of the obstruction there it would appear that it will require a couple of days to sufficiently remove it in order to pass over the captured launches and cascoes, and while there the dredge must be so protected as to make its capture impossible.
General MacArthur has had trouble on his line of communication, the enemy striking the railroad night before last in the vicinity of Bocaue, doing some damage to the track and cutting the telegraph wire. We lost all telegraphic communication until yesterday afternoon. The enemy was driven off with considerable loss but with quite a list of casualties, amounting to some twenty-five or thirty among our own troops.
It becomes quite important to establish as soon as practicable a water base at Malolos. We have now secured, as we think, an entrance into the Malolos estuary and wish a gunboat (the Napindan) to report here as soon as practicable.
The General desires to send his congratulations to you and your troops for the signal success which you have achieved.
You will find Calamba a very difficult place to approach. The beach fpr a very considerable distance out is very shallow and the town lies two miles back from shore.
66/35It is reported here that you will find a considerable number of troops there. It is not necessary to attack if you do not consider the chances of success favorable. It might be better first to pay Morong a visit, but all this is left to your discretion.
Ovenshine reports all quiet in his front this morning. The Sheridan is expected here on Friday. No news of any importance received.
Very respectfully,
Thomas H. Barry,
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Appendix: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36This text is taken from General Lawton's personal copy of the 'Laguna Report.'
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