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Death of Maj. Gen. Henry W. Lawton in the Philippine siege
Reports from Manila detail Maj. Gen. Henry W. Lawton being shot while directing troops near San Mateo in Luzon. He collapsed within 300 yards of a sharpshooter trench as Filipino resistance intensified the three hour assault to seize Sap Mateo. Lawton’s death, confirmed by Otis, is mourned nationwide with tributes and a mortgage-raising fund set to aid his family.
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Manilla
Henry AV. Tantan
st Sant/Mateo
Lawton
Manila
Lockett
Col
Sargent
Matéo
Geronimo
Gen. Lawton
Samshot
Col. Lockett
Washington
War Department
G en.Tawton
San Mateo
Luzon
Mapila
Otis
Khnown
Chicago
Harrison
Alger
Roosevelt
Charles King
Anderson
Department of the Lakes
Tha City
Philippines
Sand
Washington, D.C
Daag
Henry W. Lawton
United States Volunteers
San ‘Mateo
Jaiind
Luxon
Ettlen
Calfornia
Corbin
D.C
John F. Weston
Washington, D. C
William Ludlow
Havana
Cuba
William R. Shafter
San Francisco
Cal
Executive Mansion
Highth Corps
Regular Army
Senate
Ninth
Indiana Volunteer Infantry
Mijor General of Volunteers
Convay
William Mikinla
California
Miles
South Africa
Philadelphia
Welson A. Miles
Wheeler
Leevis
Judge Outwaite
United States Ordnance Board
Meadville
Transvaal
Canton