Excellence- A Message to Garcia

A message to Garcia was published as an inspirational essay in March, 1899. It became very popular and was reprinted as a pamphlet and a book. It was made into two different movies in 1916 and 1936. This event took place in the Spanish- American war. Garcia was a revolutionary seeking independence fro Spain. Rowan was the army officer that this book is mainly about. He was the one who took the message to Garcia. President William Mckinley was the 25th president from 1897-1901. He was assasinated 6 months into his second term by an anarchist . The tallest mountain in North America was renamed after him. It was originally named Denali and then changed to mount Mckinley, then back to Denali last year. Many people were known as slipshod. A slipshod is sloppy, careless, lackadaisical, slapdash, and remiss. They often wrote things in shorthand.