The Rough RidersDigital Antiquaria, 2004 - 127 páginas Based on a pocket diary from the Spanish-American War, this tough-as-nails 1899 memoir abounds in patriotic valor and launched the future President into the American consciousness. |
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... entirely inexperienced in military work, I should not have known how to get it equipped most rapidly, for I should have spent valuable weeks in learning its needs, with the result that I should have missed the Santiago campaign, and ...
... entirely inexperienced in military work, I should not have known how to get it equipped most rapidly, for I should have spent valuable weeks in learning its needs, with the result that I should have missed the Santiago campaign, and ...
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... entirely aware of our national unpreparedness , it was evident that the ordnance and quartermaster's bureaus could not meet , for some time to come , one - tenth of the demands that would be made upon them ; and it was all - important ...
... entirely aware of our national unpreparedness , it was evident that the ordnance and quartermaster's bureaus could not meet , for some time to come , one - tenth of the demands that would be made upon them ; and it was all - important ...
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... entirely satisfied to have done his duty - and no man did it better . So it was with Dudley Dean , perhaps the best quarterback who ever played on a Harvard Eleven ; and so with Bob Wrenn , a quarterback whose feats rivalled those of ...
... entirely satisfied to have done his duty - and no man did it better . So it was with Dudley Dean , perhaps the best quarterback who ever played on a Harvard Eleven ; and so with Bob Wrenn , a quarterback whose feats rivalled those of ...
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... entirely at liberty not to go , but that after they had once signed there could then be no backing out . Not a man of them backed out ; not one of them failed to do his whole duty . These men formed but a small fraction of the whole ...
... entirely at liberty not to go , but that after they had once signed there could then be no backing out . Not a man of them backed out ; not one of them failed to do his whole duty . These men formed but a small fraction of the whole ...
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... entirely anew . This gave the chance to promote some first - rate men . One of the most useful members of the regiment was Dr. Robb Church , formerly a Princeton foot - ball player . He was appointed as Assistant Surgeon , but acted ...
... entirely anew . This gave the chance to promote some first - rate men . One of the most useful members of the regiment was Dr. Robb Church , formerly a Princeton foot - ball player . He was appointed as Assistant Surgeon , but acted ...
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Términos y frases comunes
advance afternoon afterward Antiquaria Theodore Roosevelt Arizona army attack Bardshar battle began block-house Bonsal brigade Bucky Bucky O'Neill bullets camp campaign Caney Capron cavalry division charge Colonel Wood colored column command courage course Cuba Cuban Digital Antiquaria Theodore drill duty dynamite gun El Caney entirely extreme front fight firing firing-line forward gallant gallantry Gatlings Goodrich Greenway Guasimas guerillas Hamilton Fish hardtack heavy horses hospital Indian Indian Territory infantry jungle Kane Kettle Hill killed knew Lieutenant Tejeiro morning mountains mules never night Ninth non-commissioned officers O'Neill Port Tampa ranch rear Richard Harding Davis rifle Rough Riders San Juan Santiago sent Sergeant Shafter sharp-shooters ship shot sick skirmish smokeless powder soldiers soon Spaniards Spanish squadron suffered Sumner surrender Tampa Tenth Cavalry told took trail train transport trenches troopers troops volunteer Wheeler wounded yellow fever Young
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Página 27 - when we suddenly received orders that the expedition was to start from Port Tampa, nine miles distant by rail, at daybreak the following morning; and that if we were not aboard our transport by that time we could not go. We had no intention of getting left, and prepared at once for the
Página 23 - Roarer"; while another, who in point of language and deportment was his exact antithesis, was christened "Prayerful James." While the officers and men were learning their duties, and learning to know one another, Colonel Wood was straining every nerve to get our
Página 36 - First and Tenth Cavalry and some of the infantry regiments having already marched. Colonel Wood himself rode in advance, while I led my squadron, and Major Brodie followed with his. It was a hard march, the hilly jungle trail being so narrow that often we had to go in single
Página 47 - General Chaffee, rather glum at not having been in the fight himself, rode up at the head of some of his infantry, and I marched my squadron back to where the rest of the regiment was going into camp, just where the two trails came together, and beyond - that is, on the Santiago side
Página 73 - this would mean about 10,000 Spaniards present on the 1st; in which case Kent and Wheeler were opposed by at least equal numbers. In dealing with the Spanish losses, Lieutenant Tejeiro contradicts himself. He puts their total loss on this day at 593, including 94 killed, 121 missing, and 2
Página 27 - score, with military attaches of foreign powers, and with onlookers of all sorts; but we spent very little time there. We worked with the utmost industry, special attention being given by each troop-commander to skirmish-drill in the woods. Once or twice we had mounted drill of the regiment as a whole. The military attaches came out to look
Página 57 - regular officers the direction from which the Spanish fire was coming. As he turned on his heel a bullet struck him in the mouth and came out at the back of his head; so that even before he fell his wild and gallant soul had gone out into the darkness.
Página 11 - the ranks to the superior who cares for his men and leads them fearlessly in battle. All - Easterners and Westerners, Northerners and Southerners, officers and men, cowboys and college graduates, wherever they came from, and whatever their social