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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... 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 most rapidly , for I should have spent valuable weeks in learning its needs , with ...
... 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 most rapidly , for I should have spent valuable weeks in learning its needs , with ...
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Theodore Roosevelt. 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 ...
Theodore Roosevelt. 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 ...
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... commands and the essential movements we learned without any difficulty , and the men peformed them with great dash . When we put them on horseback , there was , of course , trouble with the horses ; but the In horsemanship of the riders ...
... commands and the essential movements we learned without any difficulty , and the men peformed them with great dash . When we put them on horseback , there was , of course , trouble with the horses ; but the In horsemanship of the riders ...
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... command the two squadrons , being al- lowed only two squadron commanders . The men who were left behind felt the most bitter heart- burn . To the great bulk of them I think it will be a life - long sorrow . I saw more than one , both ...
... command the two squadrons , being al- lowed only two squadron commanders . The men who were left behind felt the most bitter heart- burn . To the great bulk of them I think it will be a life - long sorrow . I saw more than one , both ...
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Página 60 - Accordingly, I ran at full speed to our train; and leaving a strong guard with the baggage, I double-quicked the rest of the regiment up to the boat, just in time to board her as she came into the quay, and then to hold her against the Second Regulars and the Seventy-first, who had arrived a little too late, being a shade less ready than we were in the matter of individual initiative.
Página 53 - ... and railroad matters was in an almost inextricable tangle. There was no one to meet us or to tell us where we were to camp, and no one to issue us food for the first twenty-four hours; while the railroad people unloaded us wherever they pleased, or rather wherever the jam of all kinds of trains rendered it possible. We had to buy the men food out of our own pockets, and 53 to seize wagons in order to get our spare baggage taken to the camping ground which we at last found had been allotted to...
Página 52 - We were travelling through a region where practically all the older men had served in the Confederate army, and where the younger men had all their lives long drunk in the endless tales told by their elders, at home, and at the crossroads taverns, and in the court-house squares, about the cavalry of Forrest and Morgan and the infantry of Jackson and Hood. The blood of the old men stirred to the distant breath of battle; the blood of the young men leaped hot with eager desire to accompany us.
Página 19 - All — Easterners and Westerners, Northerners and Southerners, officers and men, cow boys and college graduates, wherever they came from, whatever their social position — possessed in common the traits of hardihood and a thirst for adventure. They were to a man born adventurers, in the old sense of the word. Some of them went by their own names; some had changed their names; and yet others possessed but half a name, colored by some adjective, like Cherokee Bill, Happy Jack of Arizona, Smoky Moore,...
Página 284 - 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 53 - Everywhere we saw the Stars and Stripes, and everywhere we were told, half-laughing, by grizzled ex-Confederates, that they had never dreamed in the bygone days of bitterness to greet the old flag as they now were greeting it, and to send their sons, as now they were sending them, to fight and die under it.