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From the July/August 2003 American Speaker issue:
Jubilee Calendar
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July
On this day in 1898, future president Theodore Roosevelt led his volunteer unit of “Rough Riders” in a charge up Kettle Hill in Cuba during the Spanish American War. Although the Rough Riders were a cavalry unit, the charge was on foot.
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August
1 - On this day in 1768, colonial merchants in Boston signed
a nonimportation pact, boycotting English goods; the American Revolution was a step closer.
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