File:The Resaca de la Palma Battlefield, in Brownsville, Texas LCCN2014630488.tif

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English: Title: The Resaca de la Palma Battlefield, in Brownsville, Texas

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Notes: Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer.; Gift; The Lyda Hill Foundation; 2014; (DLC/PP-2014:054).; Forms part of: Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive.; Preserved as a National Historic Site by the National Park Service, it was here, in May 1846 during the months leading up to the official declaration of war between the United States and Mexico, that the forces of Mexican general Mariano Arista, occupied this plain following their retreat from a nearby battlefield at Palo Alto.; Credit line: The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.

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Taken on 14 March 2014, 16:57 (according to Exif data)

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Catalog: http://lccn.loc.gov/2014630488
Image download: https://cdn.loc.gov/master/pnp/highsm/26200/26288a.tif
Original url: http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/highsm.26288

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Carol M. Highsmith (1946–)

	Alternative names	Birth name: Carol Louise McKinney Artist name: Carol M. Highsmith Carol McKinney Highsmith
	Description	American photographer and architectural photographer
	Date of birth	18 May 1946
	Location of birth	Leaksville, North Carolina
	Work period	1981-
	Work location	United States of America
	Authority file	: Q5044454 VIAF: 84615840 ISNI: 0000000121418199 ULAN: 500251255 LCCN: n88121701 NAID: 10571735 WorldCat

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Camera location	25° 56′ 20.66″ N, 97° 29′ 15.6″ W	View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMap	25.939073; -97.487668

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Image title	The Resaca de la Palma Battlefield, in Brownsville, Texas, preserved as a National Historic Site by the National Park Service. It was here, in May 1846 during the months leading up to the official declaration of war between the United States and Mexico, that the forces of Mexican general Mariano Arista, occupied this plain following their retreat from a nearby battlefield at Palo Alto. Arista, who held a superiority in numbers over American commander Zachary Taylor, hoped to force an infantry battle instead of the kind of artillery duel that had devastated his troops at Palo Alto. But a daring, headlong charge by American forces routed the Mexicans. The U.S. victory at Resaca de la Palma ended the Mexican siege of Fort Texas (later Fort Brown, preserved to this day elsewhere in Brownsville) and left the north bank of the lower Rio Grande firmly in U.S. hands. The battle also had an enormous effect on the morale of the two armies. With the official declaration of war still days away, the U.S. troops felt confident that they could defeat their foe at any place and in any numbers. According to a National Park Service account, Mexican troops were thrown off-balance by consecutive defeats and would never fully recover.
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GPS time (atomic clock)	21:57
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GPS date	14 March 2014
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