Dan Sickles: Hero of Gettysburg and “Yankee King of Spain”
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Here’s how the story of Dan Sickles begins:
“WHEN HE FIRST OPENED HIS EYES in a modest New York home October 20, 1819, the skyscape beyond the Battery was fretted with the spars of hundreds of tall sailing ships. President Monroe was in the White House, Queen Victoria-to-be still in the nursery....
“When, May 3, 1914, those eyes—keen, gray, recalcitrant—closed for the last time, a stupendous one-hundred-year cycle almost had run its course. Woodrow Wilson was busying himself with the New Freedom at home, the Familyhood of Nations abroad. George V and Wilhelm Hohenzollern were exchanging cousinly notes. British dreadnaughts nosed unobtrusively toward Scapa Flow. German cruisers clotted at Kiel....
“Ninety-four years of America’s turgid adolescence! And some fifty of them spent in the thick of national affairs....
“Down the roaring decades that blent a score of polyglot peoples to a new breed, thrust Mexico across the Rio Grande and Colorado, Canada beyond the Columbia, the West out to mid-Pacific, his was a stormy, dramatic figure in Congress, on the battlefield, at the courts of Madrid and St. James’s, in the palacios nacionales of Colombia, Panama, Peru....”
Edgcumb Pinchon
Edgcumb Pinchon, who was born in 1883, was an American author of a number of books, including The Mexican People and their Struggle for Freedom (1914), Life Among Hollywood’s “Extra” Girls (1928), and Viva Villa! A Recovery of the Real Pancho Villa, Peon, Bandit, Soldier, Patriot (1933). His 1941 publication Zapata, the Unconquerable was a source book for renowned author John Steinbeck in writing the screenplay for Viva Zapata!, the famous 1952 biographical film starring Marlon Brando and, in an Academy Award-winning performance, Anthony Quinn.
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