
01-dic-2006
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Fecha de Ingreso: agosto-2006
Nacionalidad: Cuba
Ubicación: USA
Mensajes: 1.152
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Re: La Hidalgia Española En El Mar Y El Valor En San Juan
Vuelvo al apasionante tema de la guerra hispanoamericana, hoy tratare de revisar algo que nuestro amigo Luis escribe entre sus multiples interrogantes:
Cita:
5) Dicen los libros que el ejercito americano estaba formado por negros produciéndose grandes problemas en su tropa
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No se a que libros se refiere, pero no creo eso sea correcto del todo, los negros que pelearon en Cuba fueron llamados los Buffalo soldiers y veamos un ejemplo de la compsision militar norteamericana:
For that, we have to look at the order of battle, read the reports of the commanders, and follow the movements of all units on maps of the campaign. The record shows that about 15,000 American troops of Maj. Gen. William R. Shafter’s Fifth Army Corps participated in the battles on the high ground near Santiago, Cuba, on 1 July 1898. About 13,000 of them were white; 2,000 or so were black. Of the twenty-six regiments in this force, three were volunteer organizations; the vast majority were regulars. More than 200 soldiers were killed in action, and nearly 30 of those who fell were from the four black Regular Army regiments, the 9th and 10th Cavalry and the 24th and 25th Infantry.4
But he did not have the battle for San Juan Heights all to himself. There were after all 8,000 men in the operation, a total of thirteen Regular Army regiments and two regiments of volunteers, including TR’s Rough Riders. The force included about 1,250 black troopers of the 9th and 10th Cavalry in Sumner’s Cavalry Division and the 24th Infantry in Kent’s 1st Division.
http://www.army.mil/cmh-pg/documents...hbrt-bssjh.htm
http://www.spanamwar.com/AfroAmericans.htm
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