Buffalo Soldiers, the U.S. Army's first peacetime regiments of black troops, helped define the American frontier from this base in West Texas. Visit their home of Fort Davis on Aerial America: http://bit.ly/2NPD4U3 | Smithsonian Channel Aviation Nation

Buffalo Soldiers at El Caney: The Battle Erased They fought for a country that hated them. Black Buffalo Soldiers of the 25th Infantry Regiment won the Battle of El Caney on July 1, 1898—a decisive victory in the Spanish-American War. But history gave the credit to Theodore Roosevelt's Rough Riders and erased the Black soldiers who made the victory possible. This video reveals the documented truth behind one of America's most shameful historical rewrites: Nearly 3,000 Black soldiers fought in th