Destruction of Admiral Cervera's Fleet at Santiago de Cuba 1898 - Vintage Maritime Print Frame Style:Ebony Frame A 19th-century mourning print fixing

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Destruction of Admiral Cervera's Fleet at Santiago de Cuba 1898 - Vintage Maritime Print Frame Style:Ebony Frame A 19th-century mourning print fixingDestruction of Admiral Cervera's Fleet at Santiago de Cuba 1898 Vintage Maritime Print a chromolithograph rendered in the smoke and shellfire of July 3rd, when Cervera's Spanish squadron broke from the harbor mouth only to be run aground in flames along the Cuban coast. The scene burns with the terrible clarity of a war the lithographers knew would close one empire and christen another. About the Source Bella Frye sources maritime illustrations from