CAPTURE OF TABASCO - June 16, 1847
Henry Walke.   Toned Lithograph.  Sarony & Major, NY.  1847.

The three-masted steamer Scorpion, leaving a considerable wake, leads the two-masted steamer Spitfire, towing the schooner-gunboat Bonita in a dramatic dash past Fort Iturbide toward Villahermosa.  The Bonita's crew readies a 32-pound carronade as the Spitfire sports a canvas awning.