The Rough Riders · Character
Allyn Capron
A veteran captain whose troop led the advance at Las Guasimas, coolly arranging his men in the dip of the road before the Spanish outpost opened fire.
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Also known as Captain Capron, Capron, Allyn Capron
First appearance: i raising the regiment
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Capron is the officer at the point of contact—the one who discovers the Spanish outpost and, in Roosevelt's account, has time to deploy his troop before the shooting starts. Roosevelt invokes him repeatedly to rebut the…
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The emotional and psychological peak occurs in the revelation of the stark discrepancy between official report…
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