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Of the many celebrated, little known, or completely forgotten conflicts of the late 18 th  and early 19 th  centuries, the Haitian Revolution fought from 1791-1804 is one of the most culturally relevant conflicts. Currently the Haitian Revolution has garnered more attention from military and popular historians, which as a study as a revolt, rebellion and colonialist war nevertheless deserves more attention from historians. Luckily a resurgence in the study and historical interpretation of this period has occurred, with more many books written or currently being written on Napoleon’s ‘West Indian Policy’ and campaign within the context of the greater Haitian Revolution period from the Haitian/Caribbean perspective. Soldier & Haitian patriot, François-Dominique Toussaint Louverture As a French colony, Saint Domingue what is today the nation of  Haiti,  and the greater  island  of  Hispaniola in general , split in half by the Spanish an...

On this day in 1898, the 1st Volunteer cavalry known popularly as the Rough Riders, under the command of the future 26th President of the United States, Theodore Roosevelt (b.1858-1919), made their famous assault on the Spanish positions at San Juan Hill in Cuba during the Spanish-American War of April-December 1898. Roosevelt's Rough Riders won national and international recognition for their part in the greater American victory in the Spanish-American conflict fought in Cuba, Puerto Rico, the Philippines, and Guam. Roosevelt in his Brooke's Brothers tailored uniform, 1898 The Spanish-American War began in 1898 after the mysterious explosion of the USS Maine in  Havana  harbor. At first the war was Naval clash of arms, between the rising United States of America, fighting together as a whole nation once again, and a declining empire, Spain, who as a result of the war would loose all over their overseas possessions except for Morocco. After the  US  congress pas...