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Tango01 | 02 Jul 2015 11:01 p.m. PST |
… Cavalry Charge Up San Juan Hill. "To me, the date of July 2nd, has three big days in the pages of military history. You have July 2nd, 1863 -- Gettysburg's 2nd day with the main attraction of Little Round Top. Then there is July 2nd, 1898 -- future president Theodore Roosevelt charging up San Juan Hill with his "Rough Riders." The 1st United States Volunteer Cavalry. And last, but not least, there is July 2nd 1916 -- The battle of The Somme in France. The British army looses over 60,000 men in one day. When deciding what to do for this week's blog, I decided to look at what made each of these battles significant. I ultimately chose San Juan Heights. Teddy Roosevelt has always been my favorite president. Growing up, he was sickly, and trained his body to overcome his illness. He was an outdoors man, loved to hunt and use different firearms. But above all else, he longed to be a soldier. When the Spanish-American war, broke out in 1898 after the sinking of the Maine in Guantanamo Bay, Roosevelt asked to raise a regiment of volunteer cavalry. He got his wish. The rest as they say is history. While doing the research, I came across a very interesting account of the charge up San Juan. Written by a reporter by the name of Richard Harding Davis. I believe he was one of Hearst newspaper men. Here is his account of the charge of Teddy Roosevelt and his Rough Riders…" Full article here link Amicalement Armand |
LostPict | 03 Jul 2015 3:18 a.m. PST |
Bully! It may be apocryphal, but the story goes that SECNAV liked to keep the fleet in port, but left for a long weekend leaving Teddy with the conn. Teddy promptly issued orders to deploy the fleet to sea where he felt it belonged. Here's to our great Bullmoose. |
Col Durnford | 03 Jul 2015 4:16 a.m. PST |
The Maine sank in Havana harbor. Vince |
jowady | 03 Jul 2015 6:10 a.m. PST |
I wish we could get away from the idea that the Fracas at Little Round Top is all that happened on the 2nd of July at Gettysburg. After all, all three of Lee's Corps were engaged. There was heavy fighting all along the line, and the small Union Force left on Culps Hill did a masterful job of holding on to a piece of terrain more valuable than Little Round Top. Culps Hill guarded the Army of the Potomac's direct lines of communication and the rear area. Oh, and the First Day of the Battle of the Somme, when the British lost all those men, wasn't 2 July, it was 1 July 1916. I hate it when an article gets such simple things wrong, it makes me question the whole thing. |
ColCampbell | 03 Jul 2015 8:02 a.m. PST |
And of course it wasn't San Juan Hill but Kettle Hill and the Rough Riders went up it with the 10th U.S. Cavalry, the Buffalo soldiers, one of the two black cavalry regiments in the U.S. Army. Jim (once in the other regiment, the 9th U.S. Cavalry) |
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