老羅斯福與莽騎兵 (Rough
Riders)
1898年7月1日
莽騎兵最為人稱道的就是他們在1898年7月1日於聖胡安山的追捕行動。
羅斯福和他的莽騎兵是一支有多重特質的團隊。在戰爭期間，他們比任何一之軍隊得到更多的名聲。你有沒有看過西部片裡，民團人員騎著馬在一陣沙塵風揚中，在壞人身後追逐著。那就很類似莽騎兵進攻的樣子。當然，實際上莽騎兵並沒有贏得自己的戰爭。在戰爭期間，有許多士兵與騎兵隊員光榮戰死。
就在莽騎兵的聖胡安山行動的幾天後，西班牙艦隊逃到古巴。不過幾週後戰爭就結束，而美國也取得勝利。
The Rough Riders are best remembered for their charge up San Juan Hill on July 1, 1898.
Roosevelt and his Rough Riders were a colorful group of characters. During the war, they received the most publicity of any unit in the army. Have you seen any of those old Westerns where the posse rides after the bad guys in a cloud of dust? That's pretty much how the Rough Riders were portrayed. Of course, the reality was that the Rough Riders didn't win the war on their own. There were many soldiers and cavalry units who fought and died in the war.
A few days after the Rough Riders' charge up San Juan Hill, the Spanish fleet fled Cuba. It was just a matter of weeks before the war had ended and the U.S. was victorious.
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