Capture of El Caney and El Paso Fortifications of Santiago 1898 antique map italy the words themselves an act

the words themselves an act of stubborn cartographic faith

and gastronomic boast

Abraham Lincoln 19th Century — a portrait of the wartime president rendered in the grave register of his age

when a country still bleeding from Appomattox had to learn a second kind of grief

and the quiet ledger of American men summoned to a European reckoning

Capture of El Caney and El Paso Fortifications of Santiago 1898 antique map italy the words themselves an actCapture of El Caney and El Paso Fortifications of Santiago 1898 a documentary engraving of the July assault on Santiago's outer ring, where blockhouse and ridge fell to American volleys and the Cuban campaign tipped, almost casually, into the founding gesture of a new imperial century. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical societies,