Those who could must push on and get at the Spaniards.

Those who were helpless to advance must, for the present, be left to care for themselves as best they might.
At length the ever-advancing line reached the edge of a grassy valley set here and there with clumps of palms.

To the left was a stone building, formerly a distillery, now a Spanish fort, and directly in front was an intrenched ridge.

To this the Spaniards had been slowly but surely driven, and now they occupied their strongest position.
At almost the same moment, and as though animated by a single thought, Roosevelt on the extreme left and Wood on the right gave the order to charge.

With a yell the panting, smoke-begrimed Riders broke from cover and sprang after their dauntless leaders.