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Bird's Eye View of the Camp of the Army of Occupation Near Corpus Christi, Tex. Buffalo_Bills_Art Robert Louis Stevenson 199 —Bird's Eye View of the Camp of the Army of Occupation Near Corpus Christi, Tex. A documentary engraving of Zachary Taylor's encampment on the Nueces in 1845 tents fanned across the Gulf scrub, an army arranged like a wager, waiting for the war with Mexico that Manifest Destiny had already written. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical