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Two months after the sinking of the USS Maine in Havana Harbor in February 1898, Congress authorized President McKinley to recruit a volunteer army to drive the Spaniards from Cuba. From this army emerged the legendary "Rough Riders," a mounted regiment drawn from America's western territories and led by the indomitable Theodore Roosevelt. Its ranks included not only cowboys and other westerners, but several Ivy Leaguers and clubmen, many of them friends of "TR." Roosevelt and his men quickly came to symbolize American ruggedness, daring, and individualism. He led them to victory in the famed…
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4 editions- Other · English · 2017HarperCollins Publishers · 352 pages · 9780062312099
- Other · English · 2016336 pages · 9780062312082
- Other · English · 2016HarperCollins Publishers · 576 pages · 9780062466433
- Other · English · 2016HarperCollins Publishers · 9780062312105
United StatesUnited States. Army. Cavalry, 10thSan Juan Hill, Battle of, Cuba, 1898CampaignsMilitary leadershipSpanish-American War, 1898Roosevelt, theodore, 1858-1919United states, army