Talk:Rough Riders

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For == trivia buffs, they carried .30-40 M1896 Krag-Jørgensen single shots. TR himself had a .38 DA Colt Navy. For nitpickers, they weren't correctly cavalry at all; they were dragoons, mounted infantry. Trekphiler 05:28, 12 December 2005 (UTC)

Furthermore on the rifles, 1st USAVC was the only unit outside of the Regular Army that carried the KJ Rifles, and the only reason they had them is because Teddy ordered several crates from the American supplier of KJ weapons. Everyone else who carried a rifle carried Winchester 73 Rifles or older weapons in the case of the Volunteer units. It was the poor performance of the weapons available for this war that started the work on the Springfield .30 Caliber Rifle of 1903, and the M-1911 Colt Automatic Pistol.

CORNELIUSSEON 01:51, 26 January 2006 (UTC)

Contents 1 Removed link to teddyroosevelt.com site 2 Spanish American War 3 This article needs updating with the excellent b/w photos available on the internet 4 Slightly Outnumbered? 5 "The name was inspired by a play written by Christ late in the 16th century." 6 Roosevelt's Rough Riders Rye

[edit] Removed link to teddyroosevelt.com site

this is a clear violation of the wiki non-commercialization rule! this site shameless exploits TR's name - shame on them! Site is http://www.teddyroosevelt.com TeddyRoosevelt.com

SimonATL 22:48, 7 March 2006 (UTC)

Um. Actually, I don't see anything particularly "commercial" about the site you excised. It has advertising, but many hobbyist sites -- including my own -- do that simply to help pay the bills. They don't appear to be peddling anything themselves. On the other hand, the site DOES appear to be pretty useless, with mostly dead-end links to empty pages and questionable information on other pages (esp the "Teddy Bear" story, which I know something about), so I agree with removing the link. --Michael K. Smith 21:14, 13 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Spanish American War

  I am going to write about the Spanish American War. I am going to say about Cuba, Puerto Rico, Guam, and philippine Islands. A bout Cuba, An American was immediatly proclaimed in Cuba with General John R. Brooke as commader. About Puerto Rico, on July 21,the first expedition to P.R. started on its way at 7:30pm last night.About Guam, Pursuant to the treaty of Paris in 1898 which ended the war between Spain and the U.S. The United States acquired sovergnity over Guam.About philippine Islands the day the war started where places as Malaya, Borneo, Burma, Wake Island, the philippine,Guam,Miaway, and Thailand.
  George Dewey was born in Montepilier,Vermont December 26,1837 appointed to naval academy.
  The rough Riders was the name between, by the American press on the 1st U.S.(united States)

[edit] This article needs updating with the excellent b/w photos available on the internet

I'll start working on this as time permits SimonATL 17:35, 23 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Slightly Outnumbered?

Writer must not have been in the military which as standing doctrine going back to Napoleon that dictates that an attacker should have a 3 to 1 advantage and a 5 to 1 if the defender is heavely entrenched. In the case of the Spanish, they had every advantage including a complete unobscurred view of the Americans upon which they poured both machine gun and cannon fire. What the attacking Americans accomplished, volunteers as well as regulars, black and white should not be underestimated.

[edit] "The name was inspired by a play written by Christ late in the 16th century."

I've removed this entence from the intro, as it seems dubious (as well as unsourced), and is in apparent contradiction with the following paragraph, which says the name comes from Buffalo Bill Cody's traveling show. MayerG 04:58, 21 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Roosevelt's Rough Riders Rye

I just found this amazing image of a wholesaler in Seattle in 1900 advertising a whiskey called "Roosevelt's Rough Riders Rye". Not sure if this belongs in the article, but there is nothing else about it anywhere on the Internet, and it certainly is at least an interesting curiosity. - Jmabel | Talk 19:54, 11 November 2007 (UTC) ==

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