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Wednesday, 28 August 2019

Crew members of the USS Yorktown ambushed by the Filipinos according to the Dutch newspaper De Sumatra post dated 2 Mei 1899

An item reported that general Otis intended to sent the American volunteers who had served on the Philippines to sent homeward. In the meantime was a barge of the gunboat USS Yorktown ambushed at Luzon. The officer and 14 sailors were taken prisoner by the Filipinos.