To do so, it was necessary to take the citadel of Chapultepec, a massive stone fortress on top of a hill about a mile outside the city proper.
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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.
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Taylor's forces left Camargo at the end of August and launched an attack on Monterrey on September 21, 1846.
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Santa Anna used French tactics at Buena Vista, attempting to overwhelm American positions with dense columns of men.
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It continued quickly across the body of water, and made landfall in the Mexican state of Tamaulipas as a hurricane on August 17.
Alan Pulido Izaguirre (8 March 1991) is a Mexican footballer who currently plays for Liga MX club Tigres UANL and the Mexico national team.
Chalky Wright (1912-1957), born Albert Wright, Mexican-American featherweight boxer and world champion
Hill said that many of the drug dealers claim to be affiliated with Mexican drug cartels or gangs like MS-13.
Sergeant Jeff Kidder was said to have exchanged gunfire while intoxicated, with Mexican police in Naco, Sonora.
The movie was considered the Mexican version of the American film Wuthering Heights (directed by William Wyler).
The Chicano Moratorium was a movement by Chicano activists that organized anti-Vietnam War demonstrations and activities throughout the Southwest and other Mexican American communities from November 1969 through August 1971.
Daniel Omar Márquez Palacios (born January 18, 1987 in Manzanillo, Colima, Mexico) is a Mexican professional footballer.
Teodoro A. Dehesa Méndez, governor of the Mexican state of Veracruz (1892 to 1911).
While Cooper and his team are forced to perform the tasks, they discover that they - as is Mrs. Goodman - are mere pawns for a more dastardly plot: the Mexican revolutionary El Cortador's plan to assassinate the President of the United States!
In 1967 during a meeting with Alejo Carpentier, Julio Cortázar, and Miguel Otero Silva, the Mexican author Carlos Fuentes launched a project consisting of a series of biographies depicting Latin American dictators, which was to be called Los Padres de la Patria (The Fathers of the Fatherland).
División Minúscula (Spanish for "Minuscule Division") is a Mexican rock band from Matamoros, Tamaulipas, which is becoming increasingly popular in Mexico and gradually making an impact on the U.S. Latin alternative scene.
Emilio Álvarez Icaza, president of the Human Rights Commission of the Mexican Federal District
Ernesto traveled to more than 25 countries and performed his original compositions for political figures such as President of Argentina Carlos Menem, Nikita Khrushchev leader of the USSR and entertained at various prestigious venues including The Kremlin (Russia) and The Mexican Presidential House.
The event drew world leaders such as then U.S. President Bill Clinton; former Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chrétien; and Mexican President Ernesto Zedillo.
Francisco Martin Borque was a Mexican entrepreneur, he was born in Soria, Spain in August 9, 1917 and died in December 24, 1998 in Torreon, Coahuila, their family arrived Veracruz port in October 30, 1926, then moved to Torreon with their uncle Pascual Borque, in 1930's decade toured Chihuahua, Sinaloa and Sonora sierras, was married with Ana María Bringas at February 15, 1949, in 1968 opened their first hypermarket under the name of Soriana.
Frida: A Biography of Frida Kahlo (Harper & Row, 1983, ISBN 0-06-011843-1) is a book by Hayden Herrera about the life of Mexican artist Frida Kahlo, her art, and her relationship with muralist Diego Rivera.
He has three Mexican sons, all players who have elected to represent to their country at international level - Éder (born 1984), Giovani (born 1989) and Jonathan (born 1990).
He translated works of Spanish writers, such as the Mexican Jose Emilio Pacheco, the Nicaraguan Rubén Darío, Argentine exile in France Juan José Saer, the notebooks of the Spanish painter Antonio Saura (1930–1998), and poems, like those of Peruvian poet Cesar Vallejo (1892–1938) and the Chilean Vicente Huidobro (1893–1948).
Although Haley would continue to record country-western style tracks on occasion during the 1960s, most notably during his tenure with the Mexican label, Orfeon Records, Haley wouldn't record another full country album until the 1971 release, Rock Around the Country for Sonet Records.
Héctor Fajardo Navarrete (born November 16, 1970, in Sahuayo, Michoacán, Mexico) is a former Mexican major league baseball player.
Like the S4, this system is the result of a joint effort between the Mexican Federal Government, Nafinsa and academic or scientific institutions such as CONACYT, Instituto Politécnico Nacional, Universidad Autónoma de Guadalajara and ITESO.
Azcárraga, the owner of the Mexican television network Televisa, purchased both Zague and Francisco Moacyr, another Brazilian, prior to the 1961-1962 season.
He has also performed in stage plays, such as Beto al Rescate del Tiempo (in the title role of Beto) and appears in Nick Lyon’s Species: The Awakening (2007) as a Mexican boy.
La batalla de los pasteles is a 1966 Mexican comedy film starring Viruta and Capulina.
In 1928, John Philip Sousa presented Governor Arthur T. Hannett and the people of New Mexico an arrangement of the state song embracing a musical story of the Indian, the cavalry, the Spanish and the Mexican.
Marco Antonio Parra Téllez (born January 22, 1985 in León, Guanajuato) is a Mexican footballer who currently plays for CF La Piedad of the Liga de Ascenso.
María bonita (English: Pretty María) is the seventh studio album by Mexican pop singer Manuel Mijares.
The future marked a key turning point for Mexican American women, as the Chicano Movement and Civil Rights Movement was emerging, and women's role in society was beginning to change.
Among the fighters he lost to during that phase of his career were Tracy Spann, James McGuirt, Todd Foster, Santos Cardona, Stephan Johnson, Glenwood Brown, Willy Wise (who would go on to beat Chávez and lose to the Mexican fighter in a rematch) Ray Oliveira and, in Santana's last fight, Wilfredo Negron.
It also includes two new songs "El Carnal de las Estrellas", which is an attack to the Mexican broadcasting company Televisa after its denial to run their music videos, and "Rap, Soda y Bohemia" (their version of "Bohemian Rhapsody"), which was also included on a compilation album titled, "Tributo a Queen" It also includes two videos, listed as songs 11 and 12.
Mundo de Cristal (English: Crystal World) is the second studio album by Mexican singer Thalía, released in Mexico by Fonovisa Records in 1991.
Re-titled "Près de toi (Suddenly)", it is a multilingual song in French, English and Persian and contains a sampling of Algerian classic "Abdel Kader" with Arash featuring Najim and Swedish-Mexican star Rebecca Zadig
Pantha joined the team of Beast Boy, Más, Herald and Jericho to launch an assault on the Brotherhood of Evil's main headquarters, and then took part in the final battle against the various supervillains assembled by the Brotherhood of Evil; in said battle, she defeats a rival Mexican super-powered wrestler in league with the Brotherhood and claims his mask as per the code of Lucha Libre.
Jorgensen became professor investigador at LANGEBIO (Laboratorio Nacional de Genomica para la Biodiversidad), a new research institute in the Mexican federal CINVESTAV research system located in Irapuato, Guanajuato, Mexico.
Rina Lazo, full name Rina Lazo Wasem, (b. October 23, 1923) is a Guatemalan/Mexican painter, who began her career in mural painting with Diego Rivera as his assistant.
Acosta, daughter of poor Mexican immigrants, was born in the tiny mining town of Miami, Arizona, on March 20, 1925.
Rafael Ruelas (born April 26, 1971), Mexican professional boxer.
Santiago Ventura Morales was born in 1968 and grew up in San Miguel Cuevas in the Mexican state of Oaxaca where he completed school through the sixth grade.
Known as "Mexican Cinema's Grandmother", García's image is displayed on the label of Mexico's traditional Abuelita chocolate, a company now owned by Nestlé.
He later went on to act in various television series, such as Paraíso in 2002 and the film Cuban Blood with Mexican actor Gael García Bernal.
Portions of the town sit on a former Mexican land grant Rancho Lomas de Santiago.
"Sólo Tú" ( English: Only you ) is the first official single by Mexican rock guitarist Sergio Vallín featuring Raquel del Rosario from his first album Bendito Entre Las Mujeres on August 10, 2009.
A member of the Sureños (Spanish for "Southerners") group of Mexican American street gangs
They also modified some games to replace characters with local licenses; that way, Teddy Boy became Geraldinho of Glauco, certain Wonder Boy titles became Monica's Gang games and Ghost House also starred El Chapulín Colorado ("Chapolim Colorado"), a Mexican character very popular in Brazil.
His first assignment was as a second lieutenant in the First U.S. Artillery serving on the Texas frontier and during this period was with the expedition against Juan Cortina's Mexican marauders, seeing combat near Fort Brown, Texas.
In Costa Rica the Mexican Elm is known as Tirrá; the neighbourhood (district) of Tirrases in Curridabat, San José, takes its name from the tree.
Jorge van Rankin (born 1963), Mexican radio and television personality
Gus Vildósola (born 1953), Mexican off-road racing driver and businessman
In 2004 Jordán spent time in New York, Washington DC and Mexico City, training in various workshops and courses under the direction of American and Mexican filmmakers.