Their battles climaxed with the assault on San Juan Hill, where Colonel Roosevelt rallied his troops to charge through a hail of gunfire to victory.įrom Roosevelt's own pocket diary comes this gripping account of the Rough Riders' heroism. The regiment met their enemy in the tropical summer heat, fighting rain, mud, and malaria as well as the Spanish Army. The legendary Rough Riders-an unlikely combination of cowboys, frontiersmen, Native Americans, African-Americans, and Ivy League alumni-trained in Texas before shipping off to Cuba. With the outbreak of the Spanish-American War, Theodore Roosevelt resigned his post as assistant secretary of the navy to recruit the First U.S.
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