Nelson A Miles, US Army general, at his headquarters mb-code 2492201 1st Earl of Cranbrook

1st Earl of Cranbrook

Frank Hough

Inscribed verso in pencil 'Marsico Novo'

In the foreground it appears that an execution might have taken place

a scene at Smithfield Market with a man leading a woman on a rope in the centre

Nelson A Miles, US Army general, at his headquarters mb-code 2492201 1st Earl of CranbrookNelson A Miles, US Army general, at his headquarters, 1898. Miles (1839 1925) served in the American Civil War and the Indian Wars. In 1895 he was appointed Commanding General of the US Army, a post he held throughout the Spanish American War of 1898, in which he personally led the invasion of Puerto Rico. A print from Our Country in War and Relations with All Nations, by Murat Halstead, The United Subscription Book Publishers of America, 1898.