Last Charge and Capture of Port Arthur 19th Century Frame Style:Canvas Wrap where outnumbered American volunteers held

where outnumbered American volunteers held a narrow pass and minted a presidency in the smoke of Manifest Destiny's most consequential campaign

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

sword raised through the smoke — a lithograph that turns immigrant grit and green standards into the grammar of Union valor

The scene gathers the deathbed mourners in the Petersen House parlor with the solemnity of a country still learning how to grieve its martyred president

The infant Republican Party's first presidential campaign banner

Last Charge and Capture of Port Arthur 19th Century Frame Style:Canvas Wrap where outnumbered American volunteers heldLast Charge and Capture of Port Arthur 19th Century a documentary engraving of the Russo Japanese siege rendered for American eyes, all bayonets cresting the Manchurian ridge as a Pacific fortress changed hands and the old century's balance of empires audibly shifted on its hinges. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical societies, and