“Relations…Were Not at All Times of the Most Cordial Nature”: Army-Navy Coordination in
On 1 July 1898, thirty-nine-year-old former Assistant Secretary of the Navy Theodore Roosevelt led dismounted cavalrymen of the 1st U.S. Volunteer Cavalry Regiment up San Juan Hill under heavy fire. There he shot and killed a Spanish soldier using a Colt double-action revolver salvaged from the sunken battleship USS Maine.