Title: The Brilliant Charge of Captain May Description: The Brilliant Charge of Captain May, 1846 lithograph of Captain Charles A. May, a U.S. officer on horseback in a battle of the Mexican-American War (1846-1848) in which the U.S. Second Dragoons attack a Mexican artillery unit; the war was a U.S. and Mexican territorial dispute between the Nueces and Rio Grande Rivers that led to open war between the two countries on May 13, 1846; the war ended with U.S. troops in possession of California, the Southwest, northern Mexico, and central Mexico from Veracruz to Mexico City; in the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, Mexico ceded to the U.S. the territories of California and New Mexico and all the land up to the Rio Grande River, and also relinquished its claim to Texas; in return, the U.S. paid Mexico $15 million; Category: Mexican-American War Keywords: artillery, battles, captains, Dragoons, horses, Mexico, officers, Texas, Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, United States, U.S.-Mexican War (1846-1848), U.S. captains, U.S. officers, 1840s. Orientation: Landscape Dimensions: 1500 x 999 (1.50 MPixels) (3:2) Print Size: 12.7 x 8.5 cm; 5.0 x 3.3 inches File Size: 4.32 MB (4,530,722 Bytes) Resolution: 300 x 300 dpi Color Depth: 16.7 million (24 BitsPerPixel) Compression: None Image Number: 0000038504 Source: Jay Robert Nash Collection
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