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Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Henry Cabot Lodge, 3 July 1898
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Theodore Roosevelt wrote this letter to his friend, Massachusetts senator Henry Cabot Lodge, from the trenches outside of Santiago, Cuba, after the Battle of San Juan Hill in the Spanish-American War. In it, he betrays uncharacteristic anxiety about the outcome of the battle.