The Plaza Hotel is a hotel in Las Vegas, New Mexico. It was opened as an upmarket hotel for the booming town in 1882. Since then it has had a complex history. It is listed in the National Register of
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Plaza Hotel entrance
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The Rough Riders was a nickname given to the 1st United States Volunteer Cavalry, one of three such regiments raised in 1898 for the Spanish–American War and the only one to see combat. The United Sta
Plaza Hotel (Las Vegas, New Mexico)
…organized at the hotel in the 1890s to provide social activities for the invalids that did not require exertion. The first reunion of Theodore Roosevelt’s Rough Riders was held at the Plaza Hotel in 1899. Roosevelt stayed at the hotel twice, and announced his presidential candidacy from Las Vegas. The hotel was used…
The Rough Riders at the Battle of San Juan Hill in Santiago de Cuba in July 1898
Colonel Theodore Roosevelt in his Rough Riders uniform on October 26, 1898, by Rockwood.
Troops arriving in Tampa
Rough Riders heading to Cuba aboard the steamship Yucatan.