Excellence

• Published on March 1899
• Sold over 40 million copies
• Translated into 37 different languages 
• Was made into a movie two times
• Was made into a slang and is stilled used in the military today
• The slang is for talking initiative
• Was made during the Spanish American war
• Garcia was a revolutionary seeking cuban independence
• Rowan was a army officer
• McKinley was president at the time
• Slipshod means careless