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	The Rough Riders and Colonel Roosevelt by The Theodore Roosevelt Association
		The Rough Riders were landed at Daiquiri, Cuba on June 22, and saw their first action in the Battle of Las Guasimas on June 24.
		The Rough Riders were part of the large American force that assembled for the assault on the Spanish fortifications protecting the city of Santiago.
		The Rough Riders were shipped to Montauk, at the end of Long Island, and there the much-publicized and celebrated regiment was mustered out on September 16, 1898, after 137 days of service in the Army.
	www.theodoreroosevelt.org /life/Rough_Riders.htm (505 words)

	Rough Riders - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		"The Rough Riders" was the name bestowed by the American press on the 1st U.S. Volunteer Cavalry Regiment during the Spanish-American War.
		The Rough Riders were brigaded with the 1st U.S. Cavalry and the 10th U.S. Cavalry, both Regular Army units, the latter being a fl unit.
		The Rough Riders had been hit hard by a casualty rate of about 37% lost in battle, wounded, or down with one of the many tropical diseases native to the area.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Rough_Riders (1250 words)

	Ottawa Rough Riders - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Although in later years the name was said to derive from logging, the team played from 1925 on in the colours of the Teddy Roosevelt's regiment in the Spanish-American War, which, with the date of the renaming, suggests that the name comes from the war.
		The Rough Riders' last and final appearance in the Grey Cup game was 1981 against the heavily favoured Edmonton Eskimos.
		But a controversial double interference call against Riders receiver Tony Gabriel in the second half proved to be costly, as the Eskimos, led by backup quarterback Tom Wilkinson, came from behind to beat the Riders 26–23 on a game-winning field goal by kicker Dave Cutler.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ottawa_Rough_Riders (588 words)

	Kids.Net.Au - Encyclopedia > Rough Riders
		Upon arrival near Daiquiri, Cuba[?] on June 22, 1898 with a larger volunteer force under the command of General Joseph Wheeler, the Rough Riders were assigned to the Army's 5th Corps.
		The first objective achieved by the Rough Riders during this action was the capture of Kettle Hill.
		Joined by other units, notably elements of the 9th and 10th Regulars (African-American "buffalo soldiers[?]"), the Rough Riders assaulted and eventually succeeded in securing the region, contributing to the victory of Santiago, which was probably the defining battle of the Cuban campaign.
	www.kids.net.au /encyclopedia-wiki/ro/Rough_Riders (730 words)

	ROUGH RIDERS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-17)
		The bond between a rider and his mount is not easily broken, and the horse-warriors are not recruited merely for their courage or skill at arms.
		The horses of the Rough Riders are freeze-marked on the rump with Imperial Guard insignia: the freezing brand painlessly destroys the pigmentation of the hair and leaves a permanent mark in the shape of a stylized eagle surrounding the head of a horse.
		The most common Rough Rider tactic is to charge the enemy with explosive lances, switching to chainswords and laspistols once the platoon have made their initial breakthrough.
	www.inisfail.com /archives/rough-riders.html (1101 words)

	Rough Riders
		The most famous of all the units fighting in Cuba, the "Rough Riders" was the name given to the First U.S. Volunteer Cavalry under the leadership of Theodore Roosevelt.
		The Rough Riders saw battle at Las Guásimas when General Samuel B. Young was ordered to attack at this village, three miles north of Siboney on the way to Santiago.
		Although it was not important to the outcome of the war, news of the action quickly made the papers.
	www.loc.gov /rr/hispanic/1898/roughriders.html (274 words)

	Rough Riders: Col. Theodore Roosevelt's 1st Volunteer Cavalry - Roosevelt Almanac
		Theodore Roosevelt and his Rough Riders are in reserve facing the Spanish outlying position on Kettle Hill.
		To the left of the charging Rough Riders, the rest of the American line is also moving forward, heading for San Juan Hill.
		After a brief resistance, the Rough Riders capture the ridge: all of the Heights are now held by American troops.
	www.theodore-roosevelt.com /trrr.html (537 words)

	Teddy Roosevelt and the Rough Riders
		Alive with the magic of TR's inspiring personality, this is the story of the joys and struggles, the defeats and triumphs of the family that made headlines and history for a quarter of a century.
		Rough Riders: A Romance of Theodore Roosevelt and the Spanish War.
		The first complete one-volume life of the Rough Rider to be published in more than thirty years, offering an intimate history of the man. Quill, 1992.
	www.guidon.com /roughriders.html (1971 words)

	The Camp La Junta Rough Riders (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-17)
		The La Junta Rough Riders are the top eight horsemen in camp: boys who can sit a saddle, care for their tack and their mount and remain in control over all types of rugged hill country terrain.
		The goal of the rough rider trip is to include elements of excitement worthy of such an award, but to also show the boys a glimpse of what life on the range is all about.
		When the Rough Riders return to camp after their two day adventure they are proven ranch hands, experience riders and definitely young men who "would do to ride the river with".
	www.lajunta.com /clj/rriders.htm (221 words)

	Rough Riders
		The battle sequences are superbly done, while the movie IS about the Rough Riders, the crucial contribution of the all-fl 10th Cavalry to the Rough Rider's success both in their early engagements and later at San Juan Hill is well illustrated.
		And Sam Elliott is cast in the role of another one of the Rough Rider heroes.
		"Rough Riders" makes clear just how far from splendid this "little war" really was, as well as just how heroic were the men who fought in it.
	www.walhello.com /rough+riders.html (586 words)

	Long Island Rough Riders
		The Long Island Rough Riders women were blanked by the Boston Renegades, 1-0, in a W-League match Saturday night.
		The Long Island Rough Riders gave up two goals in the final seven minutes of the second half to fall to the Rhode Island Stingrays, 4-2 Friday night at Pierce Memorial Field.
		The Long Island Rough Riders women rebounded from one of their worst defeats in club history with a solid 4-1 win over the Western Mass Lady Pioneers Saturday night.
	www.bigapplesoccer.com /teams/roughriders.php (333 words)

	The Rough Riders & Their Revolvers in Cuba
		In Roosevelt’s book on the Rough Riders on page 182 he states, “While I was lying with the officers just outside one of the bomb-proofs I saw a New Mexican trooper named Morrison making his coffee under the protection of a traverse high up on the hill......
		All of the “Rough Riders” may not have had revolvers but it is for sure that many did have them from the officers down to the lowly private.
		To say that the Rough Riders did not have their revolvers is not being fair to history especially when there is no documentation stating that fact.
	www.cam.k12.il.us /hs/teachers/bresnana/rr.htm (5666 words)

	Rough Riders
		Rough Riders ride year-round in the after school program and attend at least two weeks of summer riding school to augment the riding and horsemanship lessons taken during the school year.
		Rough Riders may still come to the barn to work between the hours of 12:00pm and 4:00pm on Saturdays.
		The Saturday hours are the same for all Rough Riders regardless of their lesson schedule.
	www.potomacglenridingschool.com /roughriders.htm (317 words)

	Rough Riders Hotel - Medora, ND
		The Rough Riders Hotel is one of four buildings that appear as they did at the time that Theodore Roosevelt ranched near Medora.
		Theodore Roosevelt frequented the Rough Riders Hotel and gave a political speech from the balcony in an early 1900 presidential campaign.
		In 1962, the Rough Riders Hotel was reconstructed and refurbished on the original site by the Harold Schafer family and the Gold Seal Company of Bismarck, North Dakota.
	www.medora.com /accommodations/rrhotel.html (200 words)

	The Rough Riders Storm San Juan Hill, 1898
		The "Rough Riders" enlisted cowboys and college men led by Roosevelt under the command of Leonard Wood.
		In the confusion surrounding their departure from Tampa, half the members of the Rough Riders were left behind along with all their horses.
		The men of the Ninth and the Rough Riders rushed to the blockhouse together, the men of the Sixth, of the Third, of the Tenth Cavalry, of the Sixth and Sixteenth Infantry, fell on their faces along the crest of the hills beyond, and opened upon the vanishing enemy.
	www.eyewitnesstohistory.com /roughriders.htm (1024 words)

	MilitaryHistoryOnline.com - Teddy Roosevelt and the Rough Riders at Kettle Hill
		Due to poor planning on behalf of headquarters, the Rough Riders were only to take two-thirds of their original force, leave the horses, pack trains, and support troops behind.
		Fearlessly leading this assault, Roosevelt and the detachment of Rough Riders were able to push the Spanish away from the entrenchments and the house.
		As the Rough Riders arrived at the forward positions of the First and Ninth Cavalry (who had not received their own orders to advance), Roosevelt took the initiative and quickly invited them to join in the advance up the hill.
	www.militaryhistoryonline.com /19thcentury/articles/RoughRiders.aspx (2831 words)

	Long Island History: Rough Riders Return
		While thousands of other equally weary heroes of the short but brutal war to drive Spain out of Cuba arrived at Montauk both before and after the arrival of the Rough Riders, the newspapers often focused on the colonel, who was being mentioned as a Republican candidate for governor, and his men.
		The Rough Riders were grouped there but a number of other troopers were on their fringes.
		At their center was a rough pine table with an object on it covered by a horse blanket.
	www.newsday.com /community/guide/lihistory/ny-history-hs623a,0,6961089.story?coll=ny-lihistory-navigation (848 words)

	ARIZONA ROUGH RIDERS
		We are honored and proud to have the only Arizona Rough Rider troop commission from the Governor of Arizona for ceremonial activities from 1997 - 2007.
		Today our mission is to portray, in a historically accurate manner, the life and times of the Arizona Rough Riders, Troop "1/A" Prescott, Arizona, and their society in the 1898 period, and contribute to the betterment of our community.
		This regiment was designated "The First United States Volunteer Cavalry" and was to go down in history as "Roosevelt's Rough Riders." The idea of a volunteer cowboy regiment from Arizona originated in Prescott, and was inspired by Alexander Brodie and Mayor "Bucky" O'Niell.
	www.azroughriders.com (523 words)

	Teddy Roosevelt and the Rough Riders
		At San Antonio the Rough Riders continued their drilling and exercises, chaffing to be called to service and worried that the war might end before they got their opportunity.
		By mid-afternoon, most of the Rough Riders had landed and moved inland about a quarter of a mile to set up camp on a brush-covered flat, bounded on one side by jungle and on the other by a pool of stagnant water surrounded by a few palm trees.
		By late afternoon the Rough Riders were ready to move out, joining the rest of General Lawton's 2nd Division in the march to secure and occupy Siboney a few miles to the west.
	www.homeofheroes.com /wallofhonor/spanish_am/08_roughriders.html (4393 words)

	The Rough Riders
		Roosevelt^s Rough Riders were a key part in the fight for Cuban Independence by brave yet unconventional means that made them one of the most popular fighting forces in American history.
		While the Rough Riders were training in San Antonio, Texas, Commodore Dewey won the first victory in the war in the Philippines.
		Roosevelt^s Rough Riders were a rare bread of men who had lived, trained, and fought hard to accomplish a goal many thought would never be possible, to emerge victorious against difficult and harsh odds to become one of the renowned regiments ever to be assembled.
	www.studyworld.com /basementpapers/sec_papers/The_Rough_Riders.html (3413 words)

	1898: Arizona Goes to War - Roosevelt's Rough Riders
		In August 1898, as the regiment prepared to be discharged, the "Roosevelt Rough Rider Association" took shape, with Brodie as president and Roosevelt and Wood as vice-presidents.
		Rough Rider veterans at this reunion agreed to purchase an artificial leg for Private Charles Buckholdt, who had lost his in a fight.
		There were no official regimental reunions from 1905 until 1948, when the former Rough Riders met in Prescott to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the battle of Las Guasimas.
	www.sharlot.org /exhibits/1898/rrr.html (323 words)

	Long Island Rough Riders Soccer
		Plainview, NY (April 21, 2006) - The Long Island Rough Riders, Long Island's only professional soccer team, announced this afternoon that the team's opening game, scheduled for April 22, 2006 at 7:30 pm, has been postponed due to forecasts calling for severe weather and flooding.
		The team is concerned for the safety of fans traveling to and from the game, as well as their exposure to the threat of lightning.
		With the postponement, the Rough Riders home game on April 29th has now been re-designated as "Adidas Night", when the Rough Riders will be distributing 2,000 free size-5 Adidas soccer balls to the first 2,000 attendees through the gate that night.
	www.liroughriders.com /pages/news/news042206.cfm (232 words)

	1898: Arizona Goes to War - ROUGH RIDERS
		The most famous regiment of the Spanish-American War was the First United States Volunteer Cavalry, better known as "Roosevelt's Rough Riders." The idea for the regiment originated with Prescott's own Buckey O'Neill, who, as Territorial Adjutant General in 1890, had offered to raise a regiment of Arizona cowboys to fight the Plains Indians.
		On June 7 thirty-three Rough Rider officers and 578 enlisted men boarded the Yucatan at Tampa, Florida, their destination Cuba.
		In the short but bitter battle that followed, eight Rough Riders were killed and thirty-four (including Arizonans McClintock and Brodie) were wounded.
	www.sharlot.org /exhibits/1898/roughriders.html (587 words)

	United Soccer Leagues (USL)
		PLAINVIEW, NY -- The Long Island Rough Riders are pleased to announce their opening day of the 2006 season will be Adidas Night at Mitchel Athletic Complex.
		With the support of Adidas and the Massapequa Soccer Shop, the Rough Riders will be giving out a free Adidas soccer ball to the first 2,000 paid attendees to their match against the Pittsburgh Riverhounds.
		The Long Island Rough Riders will be joined by WB11's Larry Hoff tomorrow morning (March 28th) for a series of live training segments.
	www.uslsoccer.com /business/126542.html (362 words)

	Long Island Rough Riders Soccer
		During the recent Rough Riders U-12 Boys trip to Italy, the team earned the respect of their Italian counterparts by amassing a record of 5-0.
		The Rough Riders Developmental Program would like to give special thanks to Dr. David Grossman who helped to organize the event and to all Rough Riders U12 parents who traveled with the team.
		Rough Riders President Peter Zaratin said, “To imagine that we would have players that represent a multitude of soccer clubs from Queens, Nassau, and Suffolk counties playing together under the Rough Riders banner in regional, national and even international competition is extremely exciting and rewarding.”
	www.rough-riders.com /pages/news/youthnews110105.cfm (373 words)

	Rough Riders
		The Rough Riders, as the regiment was soon known, comprised 1,250 men, including cowboys, Native Americans and eastern college athletes.
		More than one-third of the Rough Riders were casualties in the Spanish-American War, a fact that has led some observers to criticize Roosevelt for unnecessary risk-taking.
		Nevertheless, the Rough Riders became heroes to the American public and Roosevelt emerged as a major national figure.
	www.u-s-history.com /pages/h834.html (668 words)

	Teddy Roosevelt and the Rough Riders
		Rough Riders on the attack, from Edison's "Infantry supported by Rough Riders at El Caney," 1899
		He resigned in 1898 to organize the Rough Riders, the first voluntary cavalry in the Spanish-American War.
		They participated in the capture of Kettle Hill, then charged across a valley to assist in the seizure of San Juan Ridge, the highest point of which is San Juan Hill.
	www.americaslibrary.com /cgi-bin/page.cgi/jb/progress/rriders_1 (133 words)

	Rough Riders - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-17)
		ROUGH RIDERS [Rough Riders] popular name for the 1st Regiment of U.S. Cavalry Volunteers, organized largely by Theodore Roosevelt in the Spanish-American War (1898).
		Rough Riders Blazing Trails; Black Cowboys Focus on History, Fun
		ROUGH RIDERS GALLOP PAST DENVER CHRISTIAN BOYS 69-50
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/R/RoughRid.asp (352 words)

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