Destruction of Admiral Cervera's Fleet at Santiago de Cuba 1898 - Vintage Maritime Print Frame Style:Ebony Frame where the Republic announced its

where the Republic announced its arrival as a cultural power by housing palms beneath a dome wider than any built before it

Winfield Scott riding into the conquered Halls of Montezuma as the Stars and Stripes climbed a foreign capital

A 19th-century mourning print fixing the night at Ford's Theatre into ink — the war all but won

rear-guard tangle outside the old colonial capital

and the kind of host who has opinions about ice

Destruction of Admiral Cervera's Fleet at Santiago de Cuba 1898 - Vintage Maritime Print Frame Style:Ebony Frame where the Republic announced itsDestruction of Admiral Cervera's Fleet at Santiago de Cuba 1898 Vintage Maritime Print a chromolithograph rendered in the smoke and shellfire of July 3rd, when Cervera's Spanish squadron broke from the harbor mouth only to be run aground in flames along the Cuban coast. The scene burns with the terrible clarity of a war the lithographers knew would close one empire and christen another. About the Source Bella Frye sources maritime illustrations from