Cast in Deathless Bronze: Andrew Rowan, the Spanish-American by Donald Tunnicliff Rice PDF

By Donald Tunnicliff Rice

ISBN-10: 1943665427

ISBN-13: 9781943665426

ISBN-10: 1943665435

ISBN-13: 9781943665433

In 1898, whilst battle with Spain appeared inevitable, Andrew Summers Rowan, an American military lieutenant from West Virginia, was once despatched on a mystery undertaking to Cuba. He was once to fulfill with basic Calixto García, a pacesetter of the Cuban rebels, with a purpose to assemble details for a U.S. invasion. Months later, after the warfare was once fought and received, a flamboyant entrepreneur named Elbert Hubbard wrote an account of Rowan’s venture titled “A Message to García.” It offered thousands of copies, and Rowan turned the identical of a modern day rock famous person. His reputation led to hundreds and hundreds of journal and newspaper articles, radio exhibits, and videos. Even this day he's held up as an exemplar of bravery and loyalty. the matter is that not anything Hubbard wrote approximately Rowan was once true.

 

Donald Tunnicliff Rice unearths the evidence in the back of the tale of “A Message to García” whereas utilizing Rowan’s biography as a window into the heritage of the Spanish-American conflict, the Philippine warfare, and the Moro uprising. the result's a compellingly written narrative containing many info by no means ahead of released in any shape, and in addition an available point of view on American diplomatic and armed forces heritage within the past due 19th and early 20th centuries.

 

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