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Chapultepec

noun

A pitched battle in the Mexican War that resulted in a major victory for American forces over Mexican forces at a locality south of Mexico City (1847).

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"Chapultepec" Quotes from Famous Books

... honorable business my friends and my enemies might suspect me of being a filibuster. I, Alden P. Ricks, whose great-grandfather died at Yorktown, whose grandfather was killed at Lundy's Lane, whose father won a medal of honor at Chapultepec—I, Alden P. Ricks, who had to belong to the Home Guard because I was such a little runt they wouldn't take me in the Civil War—to think that I should attain to seventy years and even be suspected of staining the flag of my country for the sake of a few dirty dollars—after ...

— Cappy Ricks Retires • Peter B. Kyne

... husband;" but that was no new or special mortification, for he had been known successively as Mrs. Todd's youngest baby, the Widder Todd's only son, Susan Todd's brother, and, when Susan Todd's oldest boy fought at Chapultepec, William Peck's uncle. ...

— The Village Watch-Tower • (AKA Kate Douglas Riggs) Kate Douglas Wiggin

Words linked to "Chapultepec" : Mexican War, Mexico, pitched battle, United Mexican States