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It happened during the Spanish-American War at the turn of the century when Teddy Roosevelt, the Rough Riders, and Americans in large numbers arrived in Cuba.
One afternoon, a group of off-duty soldiers from the U. S. Signal Corps were gathered in a bar in Old Havana.
Fausto Rodriguez, a young messenger, later recalled that Captain Russell came in and ordered Bacardi ( Gold ) rum and Coca-Cola on ice with a wedge of lime.
The captain drank the concoction with such pleasure that it sparked the interest of the soldiers around him.
The captain raised his glass and sang out the battle cry that had inspired Cuba's victorious soldiers in the War of Independence.
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