Destruction of Cervera's Spanish Fleet at Santiago de Cuba 1898 - Vintage Maritime Print framed celestial The scene carries the bravado

The scene carries the bravado of a wartime recruiting plate

Battle of Bull Run

and the unconditional surrender that first made Grant a name the Union could pronounce with hope

and period broadsides — the press photographers

Destruction of Cervera's Spanish Fleet at Santiago de Cuba 1898 - Vintage Maritime Print framed celestial The scene carries the bravadoDestruction of Cervera's Spanish Fleet at Santiago de Cuba 1898 Vintage Maritime Print a chromolithograph rendering of that July morning when Cervera's armored cruisers broke from Santiago harbor only to be run aground in flames along the Cuban coast smoke columns, splintered hulls, and the American line wheeling in pursuit, all rendered with the jingoistic flourish only a Gilded Age press could muster. About the Source Bella Frye sources maritime