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Captain Allyn K. Capron (1871–1898) was the first United States Army officer to die in the Spanish–American War. ==Before Cuba== Allyn Kissam Capron, was the first son of Agnes and Allyn Capron. He married, enlisted as private in 1890, and rose rapidly through the ranks as: * Private, Corporal and Sergeant, 4th U.S. Cavalry, 20 Oct 1890 – 1893 * Second Lieutenant, 5th U.S. Infantry, 7 Oct 1893 * Transferred to 7th Cavalry, 30 Nov 1894, became Lieutenant * Captain. 1st U.S. Volunteer Cavalry, 10 May 1898 When the Spanish–American War broke out, Capron raised a troop of Rough Riders from the Old West (now Oklahoma) to serve as volunteer cavalry in Cuba.〔Tucker, Spencer C. ''The Encyclopedia of the Spanish-American and Philippine-American Wars: A Political, Social, and Military History, Volume 1''. ABC-CLIO, LLC, 2009, p.100 http://books.google.com/books?id=8V3vZxOmHssC〕 Theodore Roosevelt later wrote of Capron:〔Roosevelt, Theodore. ''The Rough Riders''. Charles Scribner's Sons, 1899, p.27 https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Page:Theodore_Roosevelt_Rough_Riders.djvu/27〕 ''"I think he was the ideal of what an American regular army officer should be. He was the fifth in descent from father to son who had served in the army of the United States, and in body and mind alike he was fitted to play his part to perfection. Tall and lithe ... a first-class rider and shot. ... He looked what he was, the archetype of the fighting man. () mastery of his art was so thorough and his performance of his own duty so rigid that he won at once not merely their admiration, but that soldierly affection ..."'' 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Allyn K. Capron」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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