What Role Did Chanting Play in the Rough Riders' Motivation for War?

[marcus]

Today my wife happened to find this sublime bit of poetry in an old New Yorker, page 79 of the 7 June 2010 issue:

"Before embarking for Cuba, in 1898, the Rough Riders, led by Theodore Roosevelt, chanted

Rough tough, we're the stuff.
We want to fight, and we can't get enough.
Whoopee!.

...William Randolf Hearst..., to witness the war he had helped instigate, traveled on a steamship with two chorus girls dressed as sailors."

The source is a book called The War Lovers, by Evan Thomas.

 

[arildno]

Sounds a bit like one of the chants Caesar's soldiers made during his triumphal procession:
"Our general may be bald, but he F*CKS everything that MOOOVES!"

 

[WhoWee]

Sounds a bit like one of the chants Caesar's soldiers made during his triumphal procession:
"Our general may be bald, but he F*CKS everything that MOOOVES!"

How does one follow this post?

 

[marcus]

How does one follow this post?

One asks Arlldno politely to give us the Latin. He is a scholar and will know the exact words chanted by the said Legions.

Arildno, I believe this illustrates what the French call morale. Please give us the original Latin!

 

[arildno]

One asks Arlldno politely to give us the Latin. He is a scholar and will know the exact words chanted by the said Legions.

Arildno, I believe this illustrates what the French call morale. Please give us the original Latin!

:shy:

 

[marcus]

Well I certainly wouldn't put it past them.

Si non è vero, almeno è ben trovato.