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Haitian Campaign
Samuel Gross
Private · U.S. Marine Corps
U.S. Marine Corps, 23d Co. (Real name is Marguiles, Samuel.)
17 November 1915 · USS Connecticut
- Branch
- U.S. Marine Corps
- Era
- Expeditions, 1871–1933
- Home state
- Pennsylvania
- Action
- USS Connecticut
The citation
Official citation
In company with members of the 5th, 13th, 23d Companies and the marine and sailor detachment from the U.S.S. Connecticut, Gross participated in the attack on Fort Riviere, Haiti, 17 November 1915. Following a concentrated drive, several different detachments of marines gradually closed in on the old French bastion fort in an effort to cut off all avenues of retreat for the Caco bandits. Approaching a breach in the wall which was the only entrance to the fort, Gross was the second man to pass through the breach in the face of constant fire from the Cacos and, thereafter, for a 10-minute period, engaged the enemy in desperate hand-to-hand combat until the bastion was captured and Caco resistance neutralized.
Sources
- U.S. Army Medal of Honor citation index
- Wikipedia. Linked only. The article text is not copied here.
