Lieutenant John Parker talked the army into letting him take four Gatling guns to Cuba in 1898, and his small detachment went into action beside the infantry and Roosevelt’s Rough Riders at San Juan Hill. He describes the chaotic embarkation at Tampa, the landing at Daiquirí, the battle and the siege of Santiago, and offers unvarnished criticism of how the campaign was run.
A frank first-hand account and an early argument for the machine gun in modern war. Download the free EPUB.