BATALLA DEL
SACRAMENTO
F. D. Bastin after
unknown artist. Album Pintoresco de la República Méxicana. Mexico City, 1850.
Artists' interpretations of
the same battle sometimes varied widely. Here, Gen. Condé's Mexican lancers are shown overwhelming the Missouri artillery,
with the bodies of dead and wounded Americans in the foreground. In the background, Mexican infantry are shown pursuing a body of American infantry in full retreat.
All American accounts of this battle state the Mexican lancers were broken up before they reached the American guns, and it was the Mexican's who retreated.
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