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The Rough Riders was the name bestowed on the 1st United States Volunteer Cavalry. Roosevelt had resigned as Assistant Secretary of the Navy to fight in the war, and his forceful personality and notoriety among the popular press of the period were probably the main driving factors... Read Full Overview

How is this book unique? Font adjustments & biography included Unabridged (100% Original content) Illustrated About The Rough Riders by Theodore Roosevelt With the outbreak of the Spanish-American War, Theodore Roosevelt resigned his post as assistant secretary of the navy to... Read Full Overview

"Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.""It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.""Believe you can and you're halfway there." "The only man who never makes mistakes is the man who never does anything.""Keep your eyes on the stars, and your... Read Full Overview

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Colonel Theodore Roosevelt's account of the "Rough Riders", the volunteer cavalry unit that fought in Cuba during the Spanish-American War. The military campaign that made Teddy Roosevelt President. With ten pages of photos.

AN HISTORICAL CLASSIC
The Rough Riders is a history of the 1st United States Volunteer Cavalry, nicknamed "The Rough Riders", during the Spanish-American War.
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Includes Illustrations of Roosevelt and His Life

In 1898, as the Spanish-American War was escalating, Theodore Roosevelt assembled an improbable regiment of Ivy Leaguers, cowboys, Native Americans, African-Americans, and Western Territory land speculators. This group of men, which became known as the Rough Riders, trained for... Read Full Overview

Upon the 1898 Declaration of War launching the Spanish-American War, Roosevelt resigned from the Navy Department. With the aid of U.S. Army Colonel Leonard Wood, Roosevelt found volunteers from cowboys from the Western territories to Ivy League friends from New York, forming... Read Full Overview

The regiment was also called "Wood's Weary Walkers" in honor of its first commander, Colonel Leonard Wood. This nickname served to acknowledge that despite being a cavalry unit they ended up fighting on foot as infantry. Wood's second in command was former... Read Full Overview

The advent of war with Spain was a glorious opportunity for forceful leadership not to be missed by the hotheaded young Theodore Roosevelt. He resigned his post as assistant-secretary of the Navy in April, 1898, and, despite the strong disapproval of family and friends, he joined... Read Full Overview