HIST 2112 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Guerrilla Warfare, Emilio Aguinaldo, Theodore Roosevelt
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Us young men enlisted by the tens of thousands no need for draft. This war gave the us a sense of national unity going in just about everyone was for the war. After the war the unity will fall apart. Florida the men were sent to present-day tampa, fl. America sent trainloads of spoiled meat from chicago to soldiers in. Tampa us soldiers died in their camps in tampa because of the food. The fighting took place in south cuba. Unit of buffalo soldiers and volunteer unit led by teddy. Rise of teddy roosevelt emerges from war as the most visible war hero. Roosevelt (who was assistant secretary at the time) stormed. Spanish hq fight lasted for a day. Was a sickly weakling until he graduated from harvard to go out west and become a cowboy made him a lot more tough. Puerto rico (spanish pr wanted independence) and hawaii (been slowly bought up by.
