Chapultepec
[chuh-puhl-tuh-pek; Spanish chah-pool-te-pek]
- a fortress and military school at the outskirts of Mexico City: captured by U.S. forces (1847) in the Mexican War; now a park.
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It is that of Dolores, on the hillside southwest of Tacubaya, just beyond Chapultepec.
Aztec LandMaturin M. Ballou
Soon after another from the military college of Chapultepec!
The Free LancesMayne Reid
Except as an outpost to Chapultepec, the position had no value.
A History of the Nineteenth Century, Year by YearEdwin Emerson
At last the Mexicans, all but 700, retreated to Chapultepec.
A History of the Nineteenth Century, Year by YearEdwin Emerson
The Americans have stormed Chapultepec, and the city is at their mercy.
Ahead of the ArmyW. O. Stoddard