Sunday, July 01, 2007
This Day in the Long History of American Victories
On this day in 1898, Teddy Roosevelt and the volunteer cavalry known as the Rough Riders, stormed, on foot, Kettle Hill and then helped take the San Juan Hill complex outside Santiago, Cuba in what was really the only big battle of that short war.
The defeat on the ground outside Santiago caused the Spanish fleet to attempt an unsuccessful breakout two days later, where 5 of the 6 Spanish warships were sunk or grounded (only the Cristobal Colón survived the breakout but later was scuttled to escape destruction by the American battleship Oregon).
Labels: Battle of Santiago, Spanish-American War
# posted by Roger Fraley @ 1:45 PM 
