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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... four Territories . But owing to the fact that the num- ber of men originally allotted to us , 780 , was speedily raised to 1,000 , we were given a chance to accept quite a number of eager volunteers who did not come from the Territories ...
... four Territories . But owing to the fact that the num- ber of men originally allotted to us , 780 , was speedily raised to 1,000 , we were given a chance to accept quite a number of eager volunteers who did not come from the Territories ...
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... Four of the policemen who had served under me , while I was President of the New York Police Board , insisted on coming - two of them to die , the other two to return unhurt after honorable , and dangerous service . It seemed to me that ...
... Four of the policemen who had served under me , while I was President of the New York Police Board , insisted on coming - two of them to die , the other two to return unhurt after honorable , and dangerous service . It seemed to me that ...
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... Four Territories which yet remained within the boundaries of the United States ; that is , from the lands that have been most recently won over to white civilization , and in which the conditions of life are nearest those that obtained ...
... Four Territories which yet remained within the boundaries of the United States ; that is , from the lands that have been most recently won over to white civilization , and in which the conditions of life are nearest those that obtained ...
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... four times in pitched fights with red marauders and white outlaws . There was Lieutenant Bal- lard , who had broken up the Black Jack gang ill - omened notoriety , and his Captain , Curry , another New Mexican sheriff of fame . The ...
... four times in pitched fights with red marauders and white outlaws . There was Lieutenant Bal- lard , who had broken up the Black Jack gang ill - omened notoriety , and his Captain , Curry , another New Mexican sheriff of fame . The ...
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... four were or had been Baptist or Methodist clergymen — and proved first- class fighters , too , by the way . Some were men whose lives in the past had not been free from the taint of those fierce kinds of crime into which the lawless ...
... four were or had been Baptist or Methodist clergymen — and proved first- class fighters , too , by the way . Some were men whose lives in the past had not been free from the taint of those fierce kinds of crime into which the lawless ...
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2d Lieutenant Ardmore Ariz army brigade Bucky O'Neill bullet camp Camp Wikoff Capron Captain Cavalry cavalry division Charles Colonel Wood colored command Corporal course Cuban died Discharged dynamite gun Edward fever firing Frank front gallantry Gallup Gatlings George Goodrich Greenway guerillas guns Guthrie hardtack Henry horses hospital Indian infantry James John July 1st June 24 June 24th jungle Kane Kettle Hill killed knew Las Guasimas Lieutenant Tejeiro Llewellen Mauser rifle ment Muscogee N. M. Transferred N. M. Wounded night officers Phoenix Prescott Private Raton rear regi regiment regulars Rough Riders San Antonio San Juan Santa Fé Santiago de Cuba sent Sergeant Shafter shot sick smokeless powder soldiers Spaniards Spanish Tampa Tenth Cavalry Thomas took Transferred from Troop Transferred to Troop transport trenches Troop F Troop K 1st troopers Vinita volunteer Wagoner Wheeler William William H Wounded at San Young
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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.