Destruction of Admiral Cervera's Fleet at Santiago de Cuba 1898 - Vintage Maritime Print Size:24x18 its rowhouses and church spires

its rowhouses and church spires rendered in the patient lithography of a republic relearning how to admire itself

when a physician from Ste

Issued the year after Guiteau's bullet ended his brief tenure

stubborn sun

and the South was being mapped back into the Union

Destruction of Admiral Cervera's Fleet at Santiago de Cuba 1898 - Vintage Maritime Print Size:24x18 its rowhouses and church spiresDestruction of Admiral Cervera's Fleet at Santiago de Cuba 1898 Vintage Maritime Print a chromolithograph rendered in the smoke and shellfire of July 3rd, when Cervera's Spanish squadron broke from the harbor mouth only to be run aground in flames along the Cuban coast. The scene burns with the terrible clarity of a war the lithographers knew would close one empire and christen another. About the Source Bella Frye sources maritime illustrations from