COLD CASE #1898-PART A In the summer of 1898 the foreign corres on!

ent" in the icture #e$o% %&s re orting on the !e'e$o ing %&r in Cu#&( This foreign corres on!ent" h&! %ritten & f&mous #oo) on & re'ious Americ&n %&r #ut &ctu&$$* h&! ne'er #een in &n* %&r unti$ this summer of 1898( +e %rote for the ,e% -or) World &n! the ,e% -or) Journal. As & foreign corres on!ent" he re orte! the fo$$o%ing.

I knew then that one of my pals was going to stand up behind the lanterns and have all Spain shoot at him. The answer was always upon the instant: "Yes, sir." Then the bullets began to snap, snap, snap, at his head, while all the woods began to ra kle like burning straw. I ould lie near and wat h the fa e of the signalman, illumed as it was by the yellow shine of lantern!light, and the absen e of e" itement, fright, or any emotion at all on his ountenan e was something to astonish all theories out of one#s mind. . . These times on the hill resembled, in some ways, those terrible s enes on the stage!!s enes of intense gloom, blinding lightning, with a loaked devil or assassin or other appropriate hara ter muttering deeply amid the awful roll of the thunder!drums. It was theatri beyond words: one felt like a leaf in this booming haos, this prolonged tragedy of the night. $mid it all one ould see from time to time the yellow light on the fa e of a preo upied signalman.%

This described one of the moments when he was in battle-but was this truly a war to help out the those less fortunate being abused by the Spanish or was this a war to avenge the deaths of Americans or was this a war to help the United States to become a world power. Y U !"#$!"%

COLD CASE #1898-PART / During the Spanish-American War the foreign correspondent in the picture below was reporting on a battle that there would be legendary stories about. You have to name the foreign correspondent who wrote about this famous battle.

"Colonel Roosevelt, on horseback, broke from the woods behind the line of the Ninth, and finding its men lying in his way, shouted: 'If you don't wish to go forward, let my men pass, please ' !he "unior officers of the Ninth, with their Negroes, instantly sprang into line with the Rough Riders, and charged at the blue block#house on the right I speak of Roosevelt first because, with $eneral %awkins, who led &ent's division, notably the 'i(th and 'i(teenth Regulars, he was, without doubt, the most conspicuous figure in the charge $eneral %awkins, with hair as white as snow, and yet far in advance of men thirty years his "unior, was so noble a sight that you felt inclined to pray for his safety) on the other hand, Roosevelt, mounted high on horseback, and charging the rifle#pits at a gallop and *uite alone, made you feel that you would like to cheer %e wore on his sombrero a blue polka#dot handkerchief, a la %avelock, which, as he advanced, floated out straight behind his head, like a guidon +fterward, the men of his regiment who followed this flag, adopted a polka#dot handkerchief as the badge of the Rough Riders !hese two officers were notably conspicuous in the charge, but no one can claim that any two men, or anyone man, was more brave or more daring, or showed greater courage in that slow, stubborn advance than did any of the others I think the thing which impressed one the most, when our men started from cover, was that they were so few It seemed as if someone had made an awful and terrible mistake ,ne's instinct was to call them to come back -ou felt that someone had blundered and that these few men were blindly following out some madman's mad order It was not heroic then, it seemed merely terribly pathetic !he pity of it, the folly of such a sacrifice was what held you !hey had no glittering bayonets, they were not massed in regular array !here were a few men in advance, bunched together, and creeping up a steep, sunny hill, the top of which roared and flashed with flame !he men held their guns pressed across their breasts and stepped heavily as they climbed .ehind these first few, spreading out like a fan, were single lines of men, slipping and scrambling in the smooth grass, moving forward with difficulty, as though they were wading waist high through water, moving slowly, carefully, with strenuous effort It was much more wonderful than any swinging charge could have been !hey walked to greet death at every step, many of them, as they advanced, sinking suddenly or pitching forward and disappearing in the high grass, but the others' waded on, stubbornly, forming a thin blue line that kept creeping higher and higher up the hill It was as inevitable as the rising tide It was a miracle of self#sacrifice, a triumph of bulldog courage, which one watched breathless with wonder !he fire of the 'panish riflemen, who still stuck bravely to their posts, doubled and trebled in fierceness, the crests of

the hills crackled and burst in ama/ed roars, and rippled with waves of tiny flame .ut the blue line crept steadily up and on, and then, near the top, the broken fragments gathered together with a sudden burst of speed, the 'paniards appeared for a moment outlined against the sky and poised for instant flight, fired a last volley and fled before the swift#moving wave that leaped and sprang up after them

Roosevelt 0center1 and the Rough Riders celebrate at the top of 'an 2uan %ill

!he men of the Ninth and the Rough Riders rushed to the blockhouse together, the men of the 'i(th, of the !hird, of the !enth Cavalry, of the 'i(th and 'i(teenth Infantry, fell on their faces along the crest of the hills beyond, and opened upon the vanishing enemy !hey drove the yellow silk flags of the cavalry and the 'tars and 'tripes of their country into the soft earth of the trenches, and then sank down and looked back at the road they had climbed and swung their hats in the air +nd from far overhead, from these few figures perched on the 'panish rifle#pits, with their flags planted among the empty cartridges of the enemy, and overlooking the walls of 'antiago, came, faintly, the sound of a tired, broken cheer "

This described one of the moments when he was in battle-but after reading this account and the one previously& the 'uestion posed again is this - (as this truly a war to help out the those less fortunate being abused by the Spanish or was this a war to demonstrate the power of the United States to the world)

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