Battle of Buena Vista, Mexico, 1847 (c1880). Artist: Unknown

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Battle of Buena Vista, Mexico, 1847 (c1880). The Battle of Buena Vista was an engagement in the Mexican-American War. The American army under Major-General Zachary Taylor was able to repulse a much larger Mexican force commanded by Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna. Taylor afterwards returned to the United States to pursue a political career, becoming US President the following year. A print from Cassell's History of the United States, by Edmund Ollier, Volume III, Cassell Petter and Galpin, London, c1880.

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License: Licensed
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