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Give Me 10,000 Men! (Paperback)
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Give Me 10,000 Men! (Paperback)
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...and so was the rallying cry that began the Spanish-American War,
when, on February 15, 1898, the USS Maine exploded in Havana
horbor, killing 274 men.Perhaps the most famous icon from that
bloody war was the American assault on Cuba's San Juan Hill in the
Santiago campaign. It was not one of history's greatest battles,
but it was the battle that won the campaign... the campaign that
won the war... the war that dismantled the empire that had flown
the blood-and-gold colors of Spain since Columbus. This book is
based on the true story of Pvt. Alfred C. Petty's role in the
adventure that changed the world.Contrary to legend, it was not the
Rough Riders but the infantry who captured San Juan Hill. The
infantry took it while Teddy Roosevelt and his Rough Riders were
capturing Kettle Hill, half a mile away, in a rip-roaring charge.
The Rough Riders fought as bravely as soldiers anywhere, but truth
must be told: the infantry did the job at San Juan, no matter the
die-hard legend.But not before the army teetered on the brink of
disaster. Someone had blundered - and not just once. The ailing,
315-pound commanding general, age 63, and top brass committed four
egregious blunders.And how could this proud corps of elite career
officers admit that a cheeky Southern bumpkin named Petty had done
the incredible in the near-debacle at San Juan? An ex-cottonpicker
with no formal schooling? A buck private who had been in the army
only forty-three days? A soldier who had disobeyed orders to
retreat? An inelegant rustic still wearing chiefly his shabby
civilian hand-me-downs? Unthinkable. Forget him.So they euchred him
out of the honors he deserved as one of our military immortals.
This is his tale... the incredible true story of Pvt. Alfred C.
Petty, the hero of San Juan Hill.
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