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Leonard Wood the Man Who Led the Rough Riders
Leonard Wood in his forty ninth year becomes chief of staff of the army. A noted adventurer and physician by training, he rose from Boston doctor to colonel of the Rough Riders and, with Theodore Roosevelt, helped shape US military action in Cuba. Roosevelt praised him as the ablest soldier since the Civil War.
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Leonard Wood
United States Army
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Roosevelt
Lord Cromer
Egypt
Gen. Wood
Cuba
Mindanao
Sulu
William White
Peregrine White
Plymouth Colony
William Wood
Plymouth
Et Agar
Ireland
Watertown
Mass
John Nixon
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Bunker Hill
Saratoga
New England
Cape Cod
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Harvard University
Théodore Roosevelt
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Army
Navy
Harvard Medical School
City Hospital of
Boston
North End Dispensary
New York
Washington
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Crook
Fort Huachuca
Arizona
Miles
Lawton
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Southern Pacific
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Geronimo
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McKinley
Lawson
Sonora
Mexico
Yakui
Los Angeles
Ariaona
Presidio
San Francisco
Yonemite
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Plains
North Dakota
United States
Spain
Theodore Roosevelt
Saventy-first Regiment
Secretary of War
Alger
United States Volunteer Cavalry
Rough Riders
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la‘ Quasimas
Shafter
Hia
Santiago
Fortun
Renae A Ae
Ciba