Image of a scene from the Battle of Resaca de la Palma during the Mexican-American War during which Mexico's General Rómulo Díaz de la Vega was captured in a cavalry charge led by United States Army Captain Charles May; Vega is pictured lighting a cannon and recoiling in surprise as May approaches on horseback with arm outstretched; soldiers are visible fighting on foot and on horseback, wounded, or dead in background. "Lith & Pub. by Sarony & Major, 99 Nassau near Fulton St N. York"--text, bottom margin.
"Entered according to Act of Congress, A.D. 1846, by Sarony & Major, in the Clerk's Office of the Dist. Court of the South'n Dist. of [N. York.]"--text, bottom center margin.
Type
image
Extent
1 lithograph : hand colored ; overall 25.72 x 36.2 cm (10 1/8 x 14 1/4 in.)
Cannons--Pictorial works Horses--Pictorial works May, Charles Augustus, 1817-1864--Pictorial works Mexican War, 1846-1848--Pictorial works Resaca de la Palma, Battle of, Tex., 1846--Pictorial works Soldiers--Pictorial works Lithographs--Color--1825-1850. (gmgpc)
Source
Jay T. Last Collection Military Small Size Other Military The Jay T. Last Collection of Graphic Arts and Social History, Huntington Digital Library
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