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fearless, horse-mounted leader of the "The Rough Riders" and "hero of San Juan

Hill" will be hyped by the very same Yellow Press which propagandized for the
wicked little war in the first place.

In reality, the Battle of San Juan Hill, which actually took place at Kettle Hill,
was only a minor supporting skirmish, fought on foot, in which Americans
outnumbered Spaniards 15-1! It was actually the Buffalo Soldiers of the 10th
Cavalry and 24th Infantry Regiments that had already done the heavy fighting,

not TR’s “Rough Riders”. (13) Prior to charging up the essentially undefended
hill, the dramatic little Caesar, who had the only horse, rode back and forth
between rifle pits at the forefront of the advance up Kettle Hill, an advance that
he urged despite the absence of any orders from superiors. He was forced to
walk up the last part of the hill when his poor horse became entangled in barbed
wire.

The mythical “war hero” later wrote about his imaginary role in the non-battle:

"On the day of the big fight I had to ask my men to do a deed that European
military writers consider utterly impossible of performance, that is, to attack
over open ground an unshaken infantry armed with the best modern repeating
rifles behind a formidable system of entrenchments. The only way to get them to
do it in the way it had to be done was to lead them myself.” (14) The great glory-

hound recalled the Battle of Kettle Hill (part of the San Juan Heights) as "the
great day of my life" and "my crowded hour". But it will not be until 2001 that
“the war hero” is posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor for his actions. The
reason why TR’s request for the Medal of Honor was denied at the time was
because Army officials, who knew the truth about his headline-grabbing, make-
believe “heroism”, blocked his nomination. (15)