Rough Rider Marlin Spike Rigging Knife
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ROUGH RIDER MARLIN SPIKE RIGGING KNIFE
Marlin Spike
11.25cm. closed
Amber jigged bone handles
440 stainless sheepsfoot blade
Locking marlin spike
Nickel silver bolsters
Anchor inlay shield
Shackle
Brand new in box
Imported
THE HISTORY OF THE "ROUGH RIDERS":
The First United States Volunteer Cavalry Regiment was organized by Theodore Roosevelt and Leonard Wood, M.D.
TR, who was Assistant Secretary of the Navy in the McKinley administration, and a leading advocate of the liberation of Cuba, the Spanish colony then fighting for its independence, asked the Department of War permission to raise a regiment after Spain declared war on the United States on April 24, 1898. Wood, an army doctor who had won the Medal of Honor fighting the Apaches in the 1880s, was President William McKinley's physician, and a close friend of Theodore Roosevelt.
Because he lacked military experience, Roosevelt suggested that Leonard Wood be given command of the volunteer cavalry regiment; and accordingly Wood became colonel, and TR was made lieutenant colonel of the First U.S. Volunteer Cavalry, soon popularly known as the "Rough Riders."
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