It was one hundred years ago today that TR began his assent to the Presidency.

In today’s Daily Beast author Mark Lee Gardner explores the Colonels exploits on that fateful day.

“Mark Lee Gardner is an award-winning author and historian whose latest book, Rough Riders: Theodore Roosevelt, His Cowboy Regiment, and the Immortal Charge Up San Juan Hill, was recently released by William Morrow/HarperCollins.”