Thirty-nine year old hunter, cattle rancher, sheriff, explorer, police commissioner and volunteer colonel, Teddy Roosevelt quickly shifted his life when he rushed himself and his troop, the Rough Riders up San Juan Hill, on July 1st. Being one of the only men on horseback for majority of the fight, and also in a valley between hills, he and his men were a target for Spanish soldiers on the San Juan hilltops. Instead of fleeing, the murderer himself and the Rough Riders rush up San Juan hill without order to fight the Spaniards. During the battle, when Teddy abandoned his horse at a spiky barbed wire fence, two Spanish soldiers jumped out of a trench and misfired at the Rough Riders, but while the spanish soldiers were trying to run away, Roosevelt
