Industrial Age · North America · War

1898

San Juan Hill

July 1, 1898

Theodore Roosevelt led his Rough Riders - a motley volunteer cavalry of cowboys and Ivy Leaguers - on foot up a Cuban ridge, alongside Black regular army regiments whose contribution he would later minimize. Spanish Mausers killed a hundred Americans. The charge made Roosevelt famous, and within three years he was president.

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Also in 1898 (9 other events on record)

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J'accuse · Europe · Politics
Hawaii Annexed · Oceania · Politics

Before and after in North America

Before: July 16, 1897: Klondike Gold Rush
After: 1899: Veblen's Theory of the Leisure Class

Before and after in War

Before: March 1, 1896: Battle of Adwa
After: February 4, 1899: Philippine-American War

Era

Industrial Age (1801–1900), one of 513 events from that era on Saeculum.

Sources

Wikipedia: San Juan Hill