Talk:Battle of Las Guasimas

Indecisive? Is it so difficult to assume a minor defeat? yes because you'll never find it —Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.209.133.55 (talk) 22:19, 10 March 2008 (UTC)

Retreat!

The Spanish were forced to abandon their positions and retreat, it doesn't matter if they were already retreating, they lost.--$1LENCE D00600D (talk) 23:04, 25 May 2012 (UTC)

At the very least it should say "Both sides claimed victory," simply because that is what happened. The results were not "indecisive," or "inconclusive, everybody knows what happened.--$1LENCE D00600D (talk) 23:09, 25 May 2012 (UTC)

The Spanish officers both in official dispatches and in a Spanish Language account of the battle exaggerated their "success" and even placed American Regiments in the battle which were miles away and took no part at all in the battle. Theodore Roosevelt, himself, took up the Spanish claims in a subsequent edition of his book, "The Rough Riders." SimonATL 23:13, 8 January 2016 (UTC)

This battle did NOT last until mid-day. That is total Spanish Propaganda. It started around 7:30am and was largely OVER by 9am. NOR is it accurate that the Americans were repulsed and reformed. Once again, total Spanish Propaganda. The Americans were slowed initialy, but did NOT retreat nor pull back. Instead on both wings of the American attack, they kept moving forward to the shock and dismay of the Spaniards who had previously been able to easily drive off attacks by the Cuban rebels. The summary of this article will be re-written by me to separate fact from fiction. I've personally visited this battle site in Cuba and have studied it for thousands of hours including research at Harvard, the US Library of Congress, the Rough Rider Museum in Las Vegas, New Mexico and on the actual battlefield, itself. SimonATL 11:04, 19 February 2016 (UTC)