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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...

On this night in 1520, famous explorer, general, and conqueror Fernando Hernan Cortes (b.1485-1547) and his conquistadors fought their way out of the Aztec capital of Tenochtitlan , on Lake Texcoco in modern day Mexico . La Noche Triste became one of the major events in Spain ’s conquering of Mexico and the New World . Today in history on July 30 th a riot ensued during the day which became a massacre against the Europeans and their native levies whom Hernan Cortes had employed in his army during the campaign to conquer Mexico from 1518-1522. The Night of Sadness would become both the defining moment of the early exploration of the New World as well as one of its most tragic consequences. Hernan Cortes, the Conquistador This massacre came to be known as The Night of Sadness (La Noche Triste) and it had a very important impact in regards to the Spain , the Aztec culture, and the end of the greater Aztec dynasty in Mexico . Today it is arguably the defining moment of Corte...