Camp Las Casas
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Camp Las Casas was a United States military installation established in Santurce, Puerto Rico in 1904. The camp was the main training base of the "Porto Rico Regiment of Infantry," a segregated U.S. A
Officer Staff of the Porto Rico Regiment of Infantry (c.1906) at Camp Las Casas
First Company of native Puerto Ricans enlisted in the American Colonial Army, 1899
"Porto Rico Regiment" training in Camp Las Casas (c. 1904)
Rigau Carrera poses in his plane (1919)
Teófilo Marxuach
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Lieutenant Colonel Teófilo Marxuach,, was the person who ordered the first shots fired in World War I on behalf of the United States on a German cargo liner trying to leave San Juan Bay without permis
Camp Las Casas
…Though many civilians from all walks of life applied for the officers' appointment in January 1905, only seven made it that day. One of them was Teófilo Marxuach who, from 1903 to 1905, had worked as a civil engineer for the Porto Rico Regiment in the Aqueduct of Cayey. An Act of Congress, approved on May 27…
Lieutenant Colonel Teófilo Marxuach Ordered the first US shot fired in World War I
Capilla de Cristo, where Teófilo and Carolina were married
USS Newport News, previously Odenwald, in 1919
Marxuach's M1902 Officer's Saber (Sword) and Scabbard at the National Historic Trust site at Castillo San Cristobal in San Juan.