San Juan Hill

The San Juan Hill in Santiago de Cuba.
Roosevelt and his rough riders fought here 1898 with cuban guerillas against spanish troops.

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[captainh321]

At least Castro never tore down the monument there in his hatred of American democracy. It makes me sad to think that the Americans and the Cuban insurrectos fought to free Cuba from oppressive overlords, only for the Cubans to be oppressed again by a despotic tyrant from their own country. Bless the men of the Rough Riders, the 10th Cavalry, and the 71rst New York Infantry, and the units who supported them in taking those heights. Too bad they weren't around to take care of Castro later.

[isthisit15]

My great grandfather Buckey O'Neill died there

[chuzoable]

@captainh321 They had in mind to liberate Cuba, but to establish a protectorate and thus maintain control over the island. Cuba finally gets rid of the USA during the Cuban revolution. You forget what your imperialist government hiso with PR and the Philippines?



[RJM1011]

Moving video.

[putaqeres]

@jacksonwaspedo

In fact Napoleon by means of his brother Joseph I, really didnt have a real goverment, nobody obeyed its orders, and so was expresed by Joseph to his brother Napoleon in lots of letters.

Under the lack of goverment, the spanish insurgent created "las Juntas de Gobierno" a provisonal goberment. In fact many of them, beacuse every territory of Spanish Kingdom had its own "Juntas"

After a while "las juntas" decided to have better coordination so created "La Junta suprema Central"

[putaqeres]

@jacksonwaspedo

Spain was ruled by NApoleon?Frenchs just owned the floor under their feet. Here comes a comparation:

For inaviding Russia Napoleon created The " Grande Armée " about 500,000 men.

After the French defeat at Bailen (1808) and the withdraw of its brother Joseph I from Madrid, Napoleon himself invaded Spain with an army of 300000 soldiers. Of those 300000 he only could use as movil units about 80000soldiers the rest were used as garrison and for anti-guerrilla warfare.

[mrsmelzbad]

very nice, Thanks for posting, most adults in USA dont know anything about this war, or Teddy Roosevelt much less young people. They dont make them like Teddy anymore! He was also the last Pres to target shoot on the white-house lawn with his son Kermit, before going to Africa on safari.... he woulda drove the liberals to suicide...hahahaha. But he also set aside more wild land than any pres before or after.

[nolisito]

alguien conoce la canción? anyone knows the name of the song? thank you

[culter806]

Me tienes hasta los cojones, no hay ninguna carta de rendicion de españa. Napoleon uso el pretexto de invadir portugal para poder pasar un ejercito por españa, una vez en españa esperaba poder derrocar a la monarquia existente y asi ser aclamado como una especie de liberador de españa, pero se equivoco y lo siguiente fue la guerra. Puedes escribir en mayusculas e insultarme todo lo que quieras, que seguiras sin tener razon.

[culter806]

they never surrender, the peasants, civil populations and the rest of the army organizated in guerrillas were the cause of +300,000 french soldier died. They fought despite of being hungry and being betrayed by gvt. The territoy was never conquered. The country belong to the spaniards not to a bastard gvt.

[culter806]

After war Fernando VII banned the new constitution and he become in an absolutist king avoiding the modernization of the country. He was the real problem of spain not the previous war. Fernando vii and his absolutist politics were the main cause of the american liberation movements and the later civil wars(guerras carlistas).