On Feb. 6, 1899, Congress approved the Treaty of Paris, which also ceded the Philippines, Puerto Rico and Guam to the U.S.

Theodore Roosevelt became a national hero after leading a voluntary cavalry, the Rough Riders, in the Spanish-American War. After, the former assistant naval secretary served as New York governor ...

U.S. forces vanquished Spanish troops on the road to Santiago, but Lieutenant Colonel Theodore Roosevelt ... than 400 American soldiers were killed in combat during the war.

Troops on the march, Spanish ... drift toward war became inexorable despite Spain's attempts to negotiate a face-saving withdrawal from Cuba. Although the victory of Theodore Roosevelt's Rough ...

Chunky Captain Elliott Roosevelt of the Air Corps was in Texas when war came, studying navigation ... that their distant cousin, Colonel Theodore Roosevelt, son of the 26th President of the ...

Theodore Roosevelt was born in New York City to glass importer ... In 1897, he became assistant secretary of the Navy. During the Spanish- American War, Roosevelt left his position as assistant ...

Widely popular, Roosevelt entered his second term on an extremely positive note. Challenges “Lose no time coming” was the message to Theodore ... American naval fleet. However, as he knew from ...

President Trump wants Panama to return its namesake canal to the U.S.

Theodore Roosevelt, The Rough Riders (1899 ... Harvey Rosenfeld, The Diary of a Dirty Little War: The Spanish-American War of 1898 (Westport, Conn.: Praeger, 2000), p. 94. 71. Trask, The War with ...

On Dec. 10, 1906, President Theodore Roosevelt became the first American to win a Nobel Prize, winning the Nobel Peace Prize for helping to negotiate peace in the Russo-Japanese War. On Sept.

Thee issues a challenge to his son to build his body; Theodore accepts and gets to work. Thee helps found the American Museum of Natural History. TR begins "The Roosevelt Museum of Natural History." ...