Granville Roland Fortescue

Rough Rider from the Spanish-American War

Granville Roland Fortescue (October 12, 1875 – April 21, 1952) was an American soldier, a Rough Rider serving with his cousin, Colonel Theodore Roosevelt in Cuba, a presidential aide in the first Roosevelt administration and later, a journalist and war correspondent for the London Standard during the Rif War in 1920 Spanish Morocco.

He wrote for the London Daily Telegraph during World War I and during the Spanish Civil War.