General Taylor at the Battle of Resaca de la Palma — Capt. May Receiving His Orders Denver_Framed the French-born merchant who once

the French-born merchant who once bankrolled a young republic now rendered in the sober tones of Jacksonian-era engraving

The Gateway of Forgotten Names conjures the great hall at Ellis Island

his Seventh of March speech already echoing toward the rupture it briefly forestalled

rendered here in the careful gravity of a man briefly hailed as a hero and quietly rebuked as a diplomat

General Taylor at the Battle of Resaca de la Palma — Capt. May Receiving His Orders Denver_Framed the French-born merchant who onceGeneral Taylor at the Battle of Resaca de la Palma Capt. May Receiving His Orders a documentary lithograph of May 9, 1846, the moment before the dragoon charge that overran Mexican guns and gave the young republic a taste of the conquest its politicians had been promising. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical societies, and the