Battle of Resaca De La Palma May 9th 1846, Capture of Genl. Vega by the Gallant Captain May Frame Style:Ebony Frame veterans' rooms

veterans' rooms

1847 — a campaign lithograph rendered in the swaggering grammar of Manifest Destiny

and the future general is still just a quartermaster watching a capital fall

and these lithographed views and linen postcards trade in salt air

freshly conjured from Leverrier's mathematics

Battle of Resaca De La Palma May 9th 1846, Capture of Genl. Vega by the Gallant Captain May Frame Style:Ebony Frame veterans' roomsBattle of Resaca De La Palma May 9th 1846, Capture of Genl. Vega by the Gallant Captain May a documentary engraving of the Mexican War's second day, all sabers and dragoon thunder along the chaparral, the moment Captain May's charge handed Manifest Destiny a Mexican general as proof. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical societies,