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| | Theodore Roosevelt in the Spanish American War (Site not responding. Last check: ) |
 | | Roosevelt ran his men to the point where the YUCATAN docked, and took possession of her before the other units knew what had happened. |
 | | An angry Theodore Roosevelt wrote that "we did the landing as we had done everything else - that is, in a scramble." There were not enough boats, men were dropped off too far off shore and drowned under the weight of their equipment. |
 | | At the battle, Roosevelt showed the "coolness, the calm judgement, the towering heroism, which made him, perhaps, the most admired and best loved of all Americans in Cuba." Roosevelt had proved himself as capable under fire as he had been behind a desk in Washington, and in the saddle on the training grounds in Texas. |
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