About 15,000 soldiers and volunteers from Maj. Gen. William Shafter's Fifth U.S. Army Corps fought several battles for the high ground above Santiago, including San Juan Hill, closing off eastern ...

Test your knowledge of the great and obscure Americans killed in battle and the great and not-so-great battlefields.

SANTIAGO DE CUBA, April 5.-Some workmen who were engaged on the park improvement of San Juan Hill yesterday exhumed the bodies of three American soldiers 200 feet from a Spanish trench.

Memorial Day is when we pause and honor those who gave their lives for our freedom. How much do you know about America’s ...

So can you tell us who these people are Robert? - [Robert] Well, those are actually the soldiers that are prepared to go to San Juan Hill and that's in the Spanish America war. - [Danor] These are ...

It fought in the Spanish-American War, notably the Battle of San Juan Hill with future President Theodore Roosevelt's Rough Riders. Buffalo Soldiers in formation in Cuba, circa 1899. (Library of ...

In studying his life Hill said McPherson was 27 when he signed up to become a buffalo soldier and served for three years. His infantry ended up at San Juan hill during the Spanish American war.

They also fought courageously in the Battle of San Juan Hill, the Battle of El Caney, and the Battle of Las Guasimas. Although slavery was abolished the year before in 1865, the Buffalo Soldiers ...