NARA But to a young Douglas MacArthur entering West Point in 1899 ... it required a new kind of soldier. Pershing rightfully emerged as the most celebrated American hero of the war.

the revolutionaries were still inflicting deaths and severe wounds on the American soldiers. When the rainy season started to abate in September 1899, the outlook for the Americans changed abruptly.

On Feb. 6, 1899, a peace treaty between ... Teddy Roosevelt in the Spanish-American War. The 24th, one of the regiments of so-called “Buffalo Soldiers,” as they were called by Native Americans ...

NARA But to a young Douglas MacArthur entering West Point in 1899 ... it required a new kind of soldier. Pershing rightfully emerged as the most celebrated American hero of the war.