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The Rough Riders: Teddy Roosevelt Have Successfully Defeat Spain
The Rough Riders including Teddy Roosevelt have successfully defeat Spain. Roosevelt was serving as secretary of the Navy, and immediately quit his position and helped form the Rough Riders. The Rough Riders were cowboys and college men led by Roosevelt and all were ruthless and always ready to fight! Spanish had no chances at all of winning. Roosevelt would ride on horse straight through Spanish killing left and right. The men held their guns pressed across their breasts and stepped heavily as they climbed. Behind these first few, spreading out like a bunch of wild animals, slipping and scrambling in the smooth grass, moving forward with difficulty, as though they were wading waist high through water, moving slowly, carefully, with strenuous
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