Capture of Genl La Vega by the Gallant Capt May at the Battle of Resaca de la Palma Size:24x18 their names and badges rendered

their names and badges rendered with the solemn pageantry a young republic reserved for its uniformed dead

when statistics and statehood were arrayed in tidy columns as if Manifest Destiny could be tallied

General Edward Braddock 1899 — a late-century engraving resurrecting the doomed British commander of the Monongahela

Massachusetts Cape Cod arrives salt-bitten and sun-bleached

Empire dressed in classical drapery

Capture of Genl La Vega by the Gallant Capt May at the Battle of Resaca de la Palma Size:24x18 their names and badges renderedCapture of Genl La Vega by the Gallant Capt May at the Battle of Resaca de la Palma a lithograph staged in the bravado of May 1846, when Charles May's dragoons broke the Mexican line and delivered a captured general as proof that Manifest Destiny rode with sabers drawn. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical societies, and the