| Then a lieutenant colonel, Roosevelt led the Rough Riders up San Juan Hill and into the pages of American history. |
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| The regiment that he led, known as the Rough Riders, attacked the Spanish in Cuba on 1 July 1898 in a battle that made him a national hero. |
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| He was turned down by Teddy Roosevelt's Rough Riders during the Spanish-American War. |
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| In 1898 Roosevelt saw combat as commander of the First US Volunteer Cavalry Regiment, known as The Rough Riders, in Cuba during the Spanish-American War. |
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| Some of the training of the Rough Riders took place in San Pedro Park, in the north central part of San Antonio near the present site of San Antonio College. |
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