In August 1847, he was made a brevet lieutenant colonel during the Mexican-American War for gallant and meritorious conduct during the battles of Contreras and Churubusco.
He was appointed major of the 8th infantry, 16 February 1847, and served in the Mexican-American War, receiving the brevets of lieutenant colonel, 20 August 1847, for gallant and meritorious conduct at Contreras and Churubusco, and colonel, 8 September 1847, for gallant and meritorious conduct at Molino del Rey, where he was severely wounded.
On August 19, 1847, Scott's forces attacked those of Valencia in the town of Contreras, near Mexico City.
He became captain in 1846, and received the brevet of major and lieutenant colonel for gallant and meritorious service at Contreras, Churubusco, and Molino del Rey.
Scott first encountered stiff resistance at Contreras where the Mexicans were finally put to flight after suffering an estimated 700 casualties and the loss of 800 prisoners.
When Benton was 18 years old, he enlisted as a private in the Mexican War, and fought with gallantry in the mounted infantry at Contreras, Churubusco, Chapultepec and Mexico City.
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Armando Contreras Palma (born April 14, 1947 in San Miguel, El Salvador) is a Salvadoran football manager.
Following their defeats at Contreras and San Antonio, the Mexicans fell back to the village of Churubusco.
Scott settled down at "Peña Pobre" on the southwest of Mexico City, and from Zacatepetl hill, sent a force west across the "Pedregal", a lava field, to the town of San Jerónimo to flank the Mexican position at "Rancho Padierna", in Contreras.
Pedro Jacobo Contreras (born October 10, 1955) is a semi-retired Mexican Luchador or professional wrestler best known under the ring name Cachorro Mendoza.
Miranda is good friends with fellow Filipino artists Kamikazee vocalist Jay Contreras, the late rapper Francis Magalona and rapper Gloc-9.
His songs are in Chilean Spanish with a mixture of English, was produced in conjunction with the popular DJ's Rob'n'Raz, have melodic choruses made by singers such as Emmanuel Contreras, Martin Thors, Pablo Javier Gonzalez Cepeda or (better known as Yei) choristers who were both in their studio recordings and in each of the live performances he does.
Contreras helps to form a new Costa Rican narrative which breaks with the costumbrism of the 40 generation and with the urban generation of the 60's, and along with other writers like Anacristina Rossi, Rodolfo Arias Formoso, Tatiana Lobo and Ana Istarú, part of the so-called generation of disenchantment.
He is married to Doris Alvarado Contreras (born Nazca, Peru, 1942); they have had 4 children: German Arnaldo (deceased), Francisco Javier (deceased), Claudio Fabricio (Business Analyst) and Ruben Ernesto (Philosopher).
In 2006, Joseph Contreras profiled the issue of Guatemalan immigrants illegally entering Mexico for Newsweek magazine and pointed out that while Mexican president Vicente Fox demanded that the United States grant legal residency to millions of undocumented Mexican immigrants, Mexico had only granted legal status to 15,000 undocumented immigrants.
Hilma Contreras Castillo (December 8, 1913 - January 15, 2006) was a Dominican writer, born in San Francisco de Macorís.
Pardavé was born to Spanish immigrants Joaquín Pardavé Bernal and Delfina Arce Contreras, theater actors, in Pénjamo, Guanajuato.
While waiting in Seville, his unusually great devotion in celebrating Mass, and his skills in catechesis and preaching, attracted the attention of Hernando de Contreras, a local priest, who mentioned him to the Archbishop of Seville and Inquisitor General, Alonso Manrique de Lara.
José Manuel Roberto Guillermo Oquendo Contreras (born July 4, 1963 in Río Piedras, Puerto Rico) is a former Major League Baseball infielder and the current third base coach for the St. Louis Cardinals.
Los Blops formed in Chile in 1970 when Eduardo Gatti (vocals and guitars), Julio Villalobos (guitars), Pedro Greene (drums), Andres Orrego (keyboards) and Juan Pablo Orrego (bass) performed covers (Beatles, Rolling Stones, Animals, Cream, Kinks) in a local club in Isla Negra, with additional changes in the band with the addition of members Sergio Bezard (drums) and Juan Contreras (flute and keyboards).
Luis Ignacio Amezcua Contreras, along with his brothers Adán and Jesús, was a leader of the Colima Cartel, a Mexican methamphetamine and precursor drug smuggling organization.
Producers: Jimmy Greco & Ray Contreras for Jimmyray Productions, Ric Wake for W&R Group, Rafael Pérez-Botija, Ricardo "Eddy" Martínez and Jean B. Smit
Archbishop Cortés Contreras was born in La Luz in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Zamora on July 16, 1947.
Sergio Alberto Contreras (born April 30, 1980 in Obregon, Sonora, Mexico) is a minor league outfielder and first baseman who is currently playing in the Mexican Triple-A League for the Tigres de Quintana Roo.