Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919 / 2008-11-07 00:00:00
EBOOK ROUGH RIDERS ***
Produced by Dagny Wilson
THE ROUGH RIDERS
BY
THEODORE ROOSEVELT
1899
ON BEHALF OF THE ROUGH RIDERS
I DEDICATE THIS BOOK
TO THE OFFICERS AND MEN OF THE FIVE REGULAR REGIMENTS
WHICH TOGETHER WITH MINE MADE UP THE CAVALRY DIVISION AT SANTIAGO
I
RAISING THE REGIMENT
During the year preceding the outbreak of the Spanish War I was
Assistant Secretary of the Navy. While my party was in opposition, I
had preached, with all the fervor and zeal I possessed, our duty to
intervene in Cuba, and to take this opportunity of driving the
Spaniard from the Western World. Now that my party had come to power,
I felt it incumbent on me, by word and deed, to do all I could to
secure the carrying out of the policy in which I so heartily believed;
and from the beginning I had determined that, if a war came, somehow
or other, I was going to the front.
Meanwhile, there was any amount of work at hand in getting ready the
navy, and to this I devoted myself.
Naturally, when one is intensely interested in a certain cause, the
tendency is to associate particularly with those who take the same
view.
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