The Rough Riders
by Theodore Roosevelt · first published 1894
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"The Rough Riders (1899) is the story of the First U.S. Volunteer Cavalry, the regiment Roosevelt led to enduring fame in Cuba during the Spanish-American War. Roosevelt recounts how the regiment was raised from an unusual mixture of hardened southwestern frontiersmen and privileged northeastern college graduates, and how it trained in Texas and then sailed "southward through the topic seas toward the unknown." Writing at a time when war could still be seen as a romantic adventure, Roosevelt describes the confusion of fighting in the jungle; the heat, hunger, rain, mud, and malaria that tested
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…willingly, often at great risk to themselves, and other than maybe Martin Luther King, or George Patton, he's probably the best political leader America has ever produced. (I recommend his book on the Rough Riders) His original involvemnent in politics was as a crusader against corruption, and he used his wealth for the one thing it should afford, which is to be able to stand by his principles. People are welcome…
on “Roosevelt Statue Removed from Natural-History Museum for Glorifying Colonialism” ↗Yeah I would have made it differently for sure. The statue's artist and promoters wanted it to be popular, and Roosevelt was a hero in part for his Rough Riders cavalry unit so I assumer they were trying to hit on that part of his life.
on “Roosevelt Statue Removed from Natural-History Museum for Glorifying Colonialism” ↗which book about the rough riders are you referring to? https://www.amazon.com/Rough-Riders-Theodore-Roosevelt/dp/16... ?
on “Roosevelt Statue Removed from Natural-History Museum for Glorifying Colonialism” ↗…against Spanish rule of Cuba, and promoted the war that included Roosevelt at the Battle of San Juan Hill. I'm not even sure that Roosevelt pointed out the attack with his sword. Quoting Roosevelt from "Rough Riders" at https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/13000 : } How Wood escaped being hit, I do not see, and still less how his horse escaped. I had left mine at the beginning of the action, and was only regretting…
on “Roosevelt Would Not Understand the E.U.'S Antitrust Fine Against Google (2017)” ↗In one of TR's books (perhaps Rough Riders?), he mentions watching Lincoln's funeral precession as a child, from his family home in New York.
on “Teddy Roosevelt and Abraham Lincoln in the same photo” ↗