Battle of Buena Vista Fought Feby 23rd 1847 in Which the American Army Under Old_Map_of_VA rendered with the swaggering certainty

rendered with the swaggering certainty of a republic convinced that the road to Mexico City was also the road to its own destiny

and the avenues drawn in the bold optimism of an architect who believed the future would be built

when the Atlanta Campaign had cooled into Northern memory and veterans began demanding their hilltop fight be drawn with the dignity the bayonets had earned

and the coming war with Mexico were already gathering behind the calm engraver's line of his collar

Battle of Buena Vista Fought Feby 23rd 1847 in Which the American Army Under Old_Map_of_VA rendered with the swaggering certaintyBattle of Buena Vista Fought Feby 23rd 1847 in Which the American Army Under a Mexican War lithograph caught mid sentence, its truncated caption straining to name Taylor's outnumbered ranks holding the Angostura pass, the smoke of Santa Anna's columns still hanging over Manifest Destiny's bloodiest proof. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional