The Brownsville Affair

Charge of the 24th and 25th Colored Infantry and Rescue of Rough Riders at San Juan Hill, July 2nd, 1898 (Image description)

Color image of a lithograph depicting the battle of San Juan Hill. Stylized American soldiers, all except one of whom are Black, advance on a stone wall, behind which are Spanish troops firing at them. Behind the Spanish troops is a wooden fort, in which are standing two soldiers waving an American flag. Several of the charging American soldiers are lying on the ground, either dead or wounded.

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