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SERAMYA EXPEDITION 
(Supplemental to data contained in old Itinerary.) 
March 9, 1904. At 6 A. M. one company was sent out in command of Captain 
Robert 0, Van Horn, Seventeenth Infantry, accompanied by 
Private Darrah, Hospital Corps. Object, to bring up a heavier 
gun from Cotatato for shelling the Moro fort* 
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March 10, 1904* Captain V fi n Horn s company arrived early in the forenoon with 
a 3.2 inch gun, which was immediately put in action. Lieuten&nt 
Me Kenney's pedometer registered l\ miles between Kudarangan and 
Barak* Shelled the Moro works all day and evening 
Two 
companies (Allaire's and Devore's), under Major Charles M* Truitt, 
made a reconnaissance on the Moro right to within 500 yards of 
All's fort, accompanied by Dr. Brownless with Hospital Corps men. 
March 11, 1904. Major Truitt's battalion, with Captains Allaire, Devore, and 
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Chrisman, started at 5 A. M. to make an attack on the Moro right; 
but white flags went up in the Seranaya fort as soon as the ar- 
tillery firing from Galley* s battery was recommenced. Then the 
entire command was moved into the fort, which was found to be 
deserted. The temporary houses were burned. The fort, which 
is the greatest military work ever constructed by natives of the 
Philippine islands, was dismantled, the guns and arms destroyed 
(blown up with their own powder), and became the base of operations 
against the scattered Moras 
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When I first viewed the fort from within, 1 counted 56 
mounted guns and 59 embrazures that were empty or with gun 
car r iagesfrom which the guns had bean dismounted. Nearly ail 
the guns were subsequently found in the moats surrounding the 
fort or buried in the ground* I 
nted, at first, the following: 
