San Juan Hill

American  

noun

1. a hill in SE Cuba, near Santiago de Cuba: captured by U.S. forces in battle during the Spanish-American War in 1898.

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Example Sentences

The image of him and his Rough Riders charging up Cuba’s San Juan Hill became the Spanish-American War’s enduring image, but the orders he would give for operations in the Philippines would prove more consequential.

From The Wall Street Journal

I charged up San Juan Hill with the Rough Riders and joined the doughboys over there.

From Washington Times

A vibrant neighborhood known as San Juan Hill, which was home to many low-income Black and Latino residents, was razed to make way for the center’s construction, which began in 1959.

From New York Times

Etienne Charles’s “San Juan Hill” opened the season in October, and dealt directly with the midcentury displacement of economically vulnerable populations on the blocks that became Lincoln Center.

From New York Times

For its part, Lincoln Center wants to acknowledge its role in erasing the San Juan Hill neighborhood, which was once rich with music, particularly jazz, from pioneers such as James P. Johnson and Thelonious Monk.

From Washington Post