Flight of the Mexican Army at the Battle of Buena Vista, Feb 23 1847 Size:36x24 Founder and Past Supreme Chancellor

Founder and Past Supreme Chancellor of the Order of Knights of Pythias

The Military and Historical Portrait Group

two old Whigs offering Union and Constitution as a last incantation against the storm already gathering at Charleston and Montgomery

surveyed by Victorian astronomy as both geometry and elegy

the gold-domed capitol presiding over a city built on insurance ledgers and seed corn

Flight of the Mexican Army at the Battle of Buena Vista, Feb 23 1847 Size:36x24 Founder and Past Supreme ChancellorFlight of the Mexican Army at the Battle of Buena Vista, Feb 23 1847 a documentary lithograph rendering Santa Anna's retreat from Taylor's outnumbered ranks in the Coahuila highlands, drawn with the swagger of a republic certain that Manifest Destiny had just been ratified at gunpoint. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical societies,