"Bomb proofs thrown up by the Rough Riders to protect them from the dread enfilade fire of sheel [shell?] and shrapnel from the Spanish lines."

GLC07002.50

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GLC#
GLC07002.50-View header record
Type
Images
Date
1898 ca.
Title
"Bomb proofs thrown up by the Rough Riders to protect them from the dread enfilade fire of sheel [shell?] and shrapnel from the Spanish lines."
Place Written
Cuba
Pagination
1 albumen Height: 13.5 cm, Width: 17.8 cm
Primary time period
Rise of Industrial America, 1877-1900
Sub-Era
Empire Building

Shows a single soldier standing on a battlefield littered with clothes, buckets, rifles, and other paraphernalia. The soldier's face is obscured. A crude shelter is visible behind him.

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