Summary of Mark Lee Gardner's Rough Riders

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#1 The Spanish-American War was no surprise to Assistant Secretary of the Navy Theodore Roosevelt. For months, he had been doing everything in his power to make the navy ready for the great conflict he was certain was coming. He had no intention of observing the war from afar.

#2 Roosevelt’s war fever was caused by America’s fever for war, or at least its long glorification of all things military. The Civil War had erupted just three years after Roosevelt’s birth in a New York City brownstone, and that conflict had exerted a strong influence on a young boy.

#3 Roosevelt had always had something worth doing close to his mind. But it would take nine more years before he got another opportunity to do anything about it. In 1895, he wrote a letter to New York governor Levi P. Morton asking for a position in the Cuban force.

#4 Roosevelt was a very competitive person, and he and Wood quickly became friends. They would often test the limits of their bodies, and Roosevelt’s asthma disappeared completely.

• Language: English
• Publisher: IRB Media
• Release date: May 13, 2022
• ISBN: 9798822515222

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Contents

Insights from Chapter 1

Insights from Chapter 2

Insights from Chapter 3

Insights from Chapter 4

Insights from Chapter 5

Insights from Chapter 6

Insights from Chapter 7

Insights from Chapter 8

Insights from Chapter 9

Insights from Chapter 10

Insights from Chapter 11

Insights from Chapter 1

#1

The Spanish-American War was no surprise to Assistant Secretary of the Navy Theodore Roosevelt. For months, he had been doing everything in his power to make the navy ready for the great conflict he was certain was coming. He had no intention of observing the war from afar.

#2

Roosevelt’s war fever was caused by America’s fever for war, or at least its long glorification of all things military. The Civil War had erupted just three years after Roosevelt’s birth in a New York City brownstone, and that conflict had exerted a strong influence on a young boy.

#3

Roosevelt had always had something worth doing close to his mind. But it would take nine more years before he got another opportunity to do anything about it. In 1895, he wrote a letter to New York governor Levi P. Morton asking for a position in the Cuban force.

#4

Roosevelt was a very competitive person, and he and Wood quickly became friends. They would often test the limits of their bodies, and Roosevelt’s asthma disappeared completely.

#5

On February 16, 1898, the battleship the Maine exploded in Havana Harbor, killing 266 officers and men. The American government suspected that Spain was to blame, and many in the country believed that anti-American demonstrations in pro-Spain Havana threatened U. S. citizens and property.

#6

Roosevelt and Wood were constantly urging President McKinley to intervene in Cuba, and when the navy’s board of inquiry concluded that the battleship Maine was destroyed by a submarine mine, most Americans blamed Spain.

#7

The American cowboy was seen as a natural-born fighter by the public, thanks to the dime novels and thrilling performances given by Buffalo Bill’s Congress of Rough Riders of the World. Some within the military shared this view.

#8

On Saturday, April 23, Roosevelt