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To: Perseverando

One problem: pictures show the Rough Riders on horseback. Only TR had a horse. The rest had been left in Tampa.

The RRs took Kettle, poured fire into San Juan Hill, charged down Kettle then back up San Juan, which had been taken for the most part by the NY regiment a d the 10th Cavslry (Buffalo Soldiers) again on foot.


5 posted on 07/01/2019 9:22:12 AM PDT by LS ("Castles made of sand, fall in the sea . . . eventually" (Hendrix))
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To: LS

Actually, about 5-6 Roughriders, including BG Leonard Wood & 1LT Pershing had horses the day that they attacked Kettle Hill. = The few who did have horses acquired them, by various means, IN Cuba.

Yours, TMN78247


6 posted on 07/01/2019 10:17:58 AM PDT by TMN78247 ("VICTORY or DEATH", William Barrett Travis, LtCol, comdt., Fortress of the Alamo, Bejar, 1836)
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