San Juan Hill

Definitions of San Juan Hill
  1. noun
    a hill in eastern Cuba (near Santiago de Cuba) that was captured during the Spanish-American War
    “Theodore Roosevelt and his Rough Riders became famous for their charge up San Juan Hill”
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    hill
    a local and well-defined elevation of the land
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