1 July
"I have seen many illustrations and pictures of this charge on the San Juan hills, but none of them seem to show it as I remember it. In the picture-papers the men are running up hill swiftly and gallantly, in regular formation, rank after rank, with flags flying, their eyes aflame, and their hair streaming, their bayonets fixed, in long, brilliant lines, an invincible, overpowering weight of numbers. Instead of which I think the thing which impressed one the most, when our men started from cover, was that they were so few. It seemed as it someone had made an awful and terrible mistake. One's instinct was to call for them to come back."
Richard Harding Davis
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1st Brigade, 8th Corp, 2400 men, Brigadier General Thomas M Anderson commanding, Comes ashore at Cavite, Manila Bay.