Word: chapultepec
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...Chapultepec, 1847, where Winfield Scott took Mexico City and won New Mexico, Arizona, California, Nevada, Utah and part of Colorado from Mexico. Casualties were relatively severe...
...well as a successful politician. (When he was appointed Foreign Minister in 1940 he registered his personal wealth-as the law requires-as $105,000.) His wife by his second marriage comes from a wealthy family. His home is at 84 Avenida Jalisco near the suburban heights of Chapultepec Park. He is today, not only a statesman, but a man of the world, popular in Mexican society...
...people, speaking through their President, officially cited Wake's Marines for "devotion to duty and splendid conduct at their battle stations. . . ." And Wake went down in the Corps's history with its other bright stars -the battle of the Bon Homme Richard against the Serapis, Tripoli, Trenton, Chapultepec, Samar, Tientsin, Belleau Wood, Blanc Mont, other bloody fields in every part of the world where Marines have fought and died...
...mighty acreage of oil painting it was propped up in the Capitol's rotunda for 16 months while a legislative commission cast about for a likely place to hang it. Likeliest places in the Capitol were already occupied by such rival historical scenes as The Battle of Chapultepec and Westward the Course of Empire Takes its Way. One Capitol picture, however, Carpenter's dignified First Reading of the Emancipation Proclamation, failed to fill its wall space. So the commission decided to cart it off to the old Supreme Court chamber and replace it with the space-filling Christy...
...soldierly tone of his book will remind Americans that, even if they have forgotten it in peacetime, they are one of the world's great warrior nations, that the whole continental seaboard is a great field of their battles from Quebec and Louisburg to Chapultepec; that the pitting of Americans against Americans resulted in the world's most terrible battles until World War I-on the rolling farmlands of Gettysburg, in the narrow valley of Antietam Creek, on the hills at Chickamauga, in the oak and pine thickets of Virginia's Wilderness...