Landing of the American Forces Under Genl Scott at Vera Cruz March 9th 1847 Size:24x18 a small acknowledgment of the

a small acknowledgment of the year's faithful ink

when the country was still negotiating what to make of the man who had accepted Lee's sword and then stumbled through two terms in the White House

and the unconditional surrender that first made Grant a name the Union could pronounce with hope

a prelude to annexation drawn while the smoke was still settling

The Gilded Arena: Stanford White's Tower of Spectacle and Scandal renders Madison Square Garden's Moorish campanile in all its operatic ambition — the very rooftop where the architect was shot dead in 1906

Landing of the American Forces Under Genl Scott at Vera Cruz March 9th 1847 Size:24x18 a small acknowledgment of theLanding of the American Forces Under Genl Scott at Vera Cruz March 9th 1847. A documentary lithograph of Winfield Scott's amphibious assault on the Mexican coast surfboats lowering into the Gulf, the city's walls waiting in the haze Manifest Destiny rendered in disciplined ranks and gunwales. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical