The Rough RidersC. Scribner's Sons, 1899 - 298 páginas History of the Spanish-American War largely based on the daily records of Theodore Roosevelt, who trained and led the Rough Riders during the war. |
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... Mauser bullets , for the Spaniards knew the trails by which we were ad- vancing , and opened heavily on our position . Moreover , as we advanced we were , of course , exposed , and they could see us and fire . But they themselves were ...
... Mauser bullets , for the Spaniards knew the trails by which we were ad- vancing , and opened heavily on our position . Moreover , as we advanced we were , of course , exposed , and they could see us and fire . But they themselves were ...
Página 92
... Mauser bullets . Once I was standing behind a large palm with my head out to one side , very fortunately ; for a bullet passed through the palm , filling my left eye and ear with the dust and splinters . No man was allowed to drop out ...
... Mauser bullets . Once I was standing behind a large palm with my head out to one side , very fortunately ; for a bullet passed through the palm , filling my left eye and ear with the dust and splinters . No man was allowed to drop out ...
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... Mauser ) went into his neck and lodged against the bone , being afterward cut out . The fifth bullet again hit his left hand . The sixth scraped his head and the seventh his neck . He did not receive all of the wounds at the same time ...
... Mauser ) went into his neck and lodged against the bone , being afterward cut out . The fifth bullet again hit his left hand . The sixth scraped his head and the seventh his neck . He did not receive all of the wounds at the same time ...
Página 122
... Mauser bullets themselves made a small clean hole, with the result that the wound healed in a most astonishing manner. One or two of our men who were shot in the head had the skull blown open, but elsewhere the wounds from the minute ...
... Mauser bullets themselves made a small clean hole, with the result that the wound healed in a most astonishing manner. One or two of our men who were shot in the head had the skull blown open, but elsewhere the wounds from the minute ...
Página 121
... Mauser bullets drove in sheets through the trees and the tall jungle grass , making a peculiar whirring or rustling sound ; some of the bullets seemed to pop in the air , so that we thought they were explosive ; and , indeed , many of ...
... Mauser bullets drove in sheets through the trees and the tall jungle grass , making a peculiar whirring or rustling sound ; some of the bullets seemed to pop in the air , so that we thought they were explosive ; and , indeed , many of ...
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Página 248 - Our present camps are as healthy as any camps at this end of the island can be. I write only because I cannot see our men, who have fought so bravely and who have endured extreme hardship and danger so uncomplainingly, go to destruction without striving so far as lies in me to avert a doom as fearful as it is unnecessary and undeserved.
Página 249 - This army must be moved at once or perish. As the army can be safely moved now, the persons responsible for preventing such a move will be responsible for the unnecessary loss of many thousands of lives.
Página 95 - Around one of the latter the big•, hideous land-crabs had gathered in a grewsome ring, waiting for life to be extinct. One of our own men and most of the Spanish dead had been found by the vultures before we got to them ; and their bodies were mangled, the eyes and wounds being torn. The Rough Rider who had been thus treated was in Bucky O'Neill's troop ; and as we looked at the body, O'Neill turned to me and asked, " Colonel, isn't it Whitman who says of the vultures that ' they pluck the eyes...
Página 7 - I should have spent valuable weeks in learning its needs, with the result that I should have missed the Santiago campaign, and might not even have had the consolation prize of going to Porto Rico. Fortunately, I was wise enough to tell the Secretary that while I believed I could learn to command the regiment in a month, yet that it was just this very month which I could not afford to spare, and that therefore I would be quite content to go as lieutenant-colonel, if he would make Wood colonel. This...
Página 122 - The infantry got nearer and nearer the crest of the hill. At last we could see the Spaniards running from the rifle-pits as the Americans came on in their final rush. Then I stopped my men for fear they should injure their comrades, and called to them to charge the next line of trenches, on the hills in our front, from which we had been undergoing a good deal of punishment. Thinking that the men would all come, I jumped over the wire fence in front of us and started at the double ; but, as a matter...
Página 250 - Speak unto every feathered fowl, and to every beast of the field, Assemble yourselves, and come; gather yourselves on every side to my sacrifice that I do sacrifice for you, even a great sacrifice upon the mountains of Israel, that ye may eat flesh, and drink blood. Ye shall eat the flesh of the mighty, and drink the blood of the princes of the earth, of rams, of lambs, and of goats, of bullocks, all of them fatlings of Bashan.
Página 114 - Soldiers are apt to recollect their wartime actions, as poets do emotions, in tranquillity, imposing order and reason upon a dreamlike tumult. Roosevelt was honest enough to admit, even when minutely describing his charge up the hill, that at the time he was aware of very little that...
Página 87 - ... the Revolutionary War, the War of 1812, the Mexican War, and the Civil War. In...
Página 4 - Southwest he had commanded not only regulars and Indian scouts, but also white frontiersmen. In the Northwest I had spent much of my time, for many years, either on my ranch or in long hunting trips, and had lived and worked for months together with the cowboy and the mountain hunter, faring in every way precisely as they did. Secretary Alger offered me the command of one of these regiments. If I had taken it, being entirely inexperienced in military work, I should not have known how to get it equipped...