Batalla del Sacramento, by Julio Michaud y Thomas Most images of the Mexican-American War were created by artists from the United States, but Mexicans also recorded the war. In this hand-colored lithograph, Mexican artist Julio Michaud y Thomas depicts the February 1847 battle in which 1,100 American troops engaged 3,000 Mexicans on the banks of the Sacramento River near Chihuahua. Yale Collection of Western Americana, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.