Roosevelt left his post in the Navy Department and, with Leonard Wood, put together a unique assemblage of men to form the only volunteer cavalry to see action in the subsequent brief war. battleship Maine in February 1898, war was inevitable, given America's outrage over the affair.
He sets the stage by chronicling the troubled history of Cuba and its Spanish rulers, and of U.S. Walker (Legends and Lies: Great Mysteries of the American West) has written a lucid account of the history of this volunteer cavalry regiment. Their flamboyant colonel, Theodore Roosevelt, was larger than life and generated substantial publicity for his men. Volunteer Cavalry, the Rough Riders are synonymous with the Spanish-American War.
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