Theodore Roosevelt, Twenty-sixth President of the United States: A Typical AmericanS. Stone, 1901 - 413 pages |
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... Daiquiri , Cuba . On the morning of the 22d the navy , with steam and naphtha launches towing large strings of boats , commenced landing our troops . General Shafter put Lawton's division and Bates ' brigade before us . We felt this ...
... Daiquiri , Cuba . On the morning of the 22d the navy , with steam and naphtha launches towing large strings of boats , commenced landing our troops . General Shafter put Lawton's division and Bates ' brigade before us . We felt this ...
Page 232
... Daiquiri . There are mines of iron ore all around it , and a railway runs to Santiago . The place had strategic advantages . But the landing itself was a scramble - each commander taking care of himself and his men . There was still a ...
... Daiquiri . There are mines of iron ore all around it , and a railway runs to Santiago . The place had strategic advantages . But the landing itself was a scramble - each commander taking care of himself and his men . There was still a ...
Page 264
... occupation of the island for Colonel Roosevelt to get to the front supplies of clothing or medi- cine for his men . On the coast at Daiquiri still stood heaps of barrels and bales and boxes of provisions 264 THEODORE ROOSEVELT .
... occupation of the island for Colonel Roosevelt to get to the front supplies of clothing or medi- cine for his men . On the coast at Daiquiri still stood heaps of barrels and bales and boxes of provisions 264 THEODORE ROOSEVELT .
Contents
POEM by GRACE DUFFIE BOYLAN | 5 |
A TYPICAL AMERICAN introduction by OPIE READ | 25 |
THEODORE ROOSEVELT | 33 |
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