Editing Fort Stotsenburg (section)

== Origins ==
[[File:Clark Field (Fort Stotsenburg) NHI historical marker.jpg|thumb|left|upright|Philippine historical marker installed at the site in 2003]]

By October 1902, American forces had established more or less permanent quarters near the Angeles railroad station in an area of the town known as Talimundoc (now the [[barangay]] of Lourdes Sur).  The rumor is that cavalry foragers had come across a fertile plain further to the north and that sweet grass was abundant in this area.  The U.S. cavalry forces had encountered problems caused by the fact that their horses became sick and often died after eating Philippine "sawgrass."

By the latter part of 1902, plans were under consideration to relocate the American military reservation to this area near the barrio of [[Sapang Bato]].  The preliminary survey dates from 1902.  In the following year, [[President of the United States|President]] [[Theodore Roosevelt]] signed an executive order, establishing Fort Stotsenburg in the location later occupied by Clark Air Base.