The Rough Riders' charge up San Juan Hill on July 1,1898 was the most famous moment of the Spanish-American War, a conflict that has come down in history as "a splendid little war." It was the event that thrust Colonel Theodore Roosevelt - who had resigned his position as secretary of the Navy to form the regiment - into the national spotlight, from which he was never to stray. It also cemented the legend of the Rough Riders, the eclectic group of Western deadshots, Ivy
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