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Philippine–American War
Louis J. Van Schaick
First Lieutenant · U.S. Army
4th U.S. Infantry
23 November 1901 · Nasugbu, Batangas, Philippine Islands
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Era
- Expeditions, 1871–1933
- Home state
- New York
- Action
- Nasugbu, Batangas, Philippine Islands
The citation
Official citation
While in pursuit of a band of insurgents was the first of his detachment to emerge from a canyon, and seeing a column of insurgents and fearing they might turn and dispatch his men as they emerged one by one from the canyon, galloped forward and closed with the insurgents, thereby throwing them into confusion until the arrival of others of the detachment.