Battle of Sacramento, Feb. 28th 1847: terrific charge of the Mexican lancers – Historic Print
![Battle of Sacramento, Feb. 28th 1847: terrific charge of the Mexican lancers, [New York] : N. Currier, 1847. — antique lithograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/e5/e5096f6185cf-L.webp)
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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Few images capture their era like this antique lithograph of Battle of Sacramento, Feb. 28th 1847: terrific charge of the Mexican lancers. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Battle of Sacramento, Feb. 28th 1847: terrific charge of the Mexican lancers
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The title places this fight at Sacramento on February 28, 1847, near Chihuahua City in northern Mexico during the Mexican-American War, and it highlights a lancer charge rather than the broader engagement. Nathaniel Currier's New York firm issued a steady run of war scenes that year to satisfy a public hungry for news from the front, often within weeks of the events they showed. Hand coloring gave each sheet a brighter, more theatrical look, and the charging horsemen are typical of the dramatic cavalry imagery that sold well. Viewers should read it as patriotic spectacle meant for a home audience, not as an exact record of the action.
| Created / published | [New York] : N. Currier, 1847. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : lithograph, hand col. |
| Genre | Lithographs Hand colored 1840-1850. |
| Notes | Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 0479. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,086 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-175623 |
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