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Flight of Santa Anna on a Muel, at the Battle of Cerro Gordo, April 17, 1847.

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Title: Flight of Santa Anna on a Muel, at the Battle of Cerro Gordo, April 17, 1847.
Contributor: Thomas S. Husted & Company
Butler, Benjamin F. (Benjamin Franklin), 1818-1893
Date Created and/or Issued: 1847
Publication Information: N[ew] Y[ork] : T. S. Husted & Co
Contributing Institution: California State Library
Collection: California History Section Picture Catalog
Rights Information: Non-circulating.
Description: 1999-0123
PRINTS-F-SIZE: MEXICAN WAR, 1846-1848: BATTLE OF CERRO GORDO
Non-circulating.
Santa Anna on a mule (left) leaping over a fallen rider and horse while fleeing the Battle of Cerro Gordo; American soldiers at right riding towards yellow carriage and Mexican troops on the hills; 1847.
Descriptive caption below print: "Santa Anna well can write, better far than he can fight, boasts of dying yet the sinner runs away, and leaves his dinner. considerate still, while turning tail, to make all sure, he gives leg bail."
Type: image
Format: Pictorial works.
Nonprojected graphic
Extent: 1 print : lithograph, hand col. ; image 7 7/8 x 12 1/2 in. on 13 1/2 x 17 7/8 in. sheet.
Identifier: (C)001378414CSL01-Aleph
(DRA)VVV-1654
Language: English
Subject: Mexican War, 1846-1848--Pictorial works
Cerro Gordo, Battle of, 1847
Campaigns & battles--Mexico--Cerro Gordo
Cerro Gordo (Mexico)--Pictorial works
Prints
Lithographs
Place: Mexico
Cerro Gordo
Cerro Gordo (Mexico)

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