Battle of Resaca De La Palma May 9th 1846, Capture of Genl. Vega by the Gallant Captain May Frame Style:Verdigris Frame and the slow-burning quarrel over

and the slow-burning quarrel over the West

Burns Monument

hand-cranked grist mills

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

rendered in the wistful idiom of a lithograph that knew it was already documenting a place lost to its own ambition

Battle of Resaca De La Palma May 9th 1846, Capture of Genl. Vega by the Gallant Captain May Frame Style:Verdigris Frame and the slow-burning quarrel overBattle 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,