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Definition of Chapultepec
1. 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).
Group relationships: Mexican War
Geographical relationships: Mexico, United Mexican States
Lexicographical Neighbors of Chapultepec
Literary usage of Chapultepec
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Eldorado, Or, Adventures in the Path of Empire: Comprising a Voyage to by Bayard Taylor, Thomas Butler King (1850)
"We started for Chapultepec one fine afternoon, with Mr. Belden, ... Here a strong
barricade was carried after the taking of Chapultepec by Pillow's division ..."
2. A History of the People of the United States: From the Revolution to the by John Bach McMaster (1910)
"The attack of the Americans, however, was irresistible, and the enemy was put to
flight, as he soon was on the left, under the very guns of Chapultepec. ..."
3. Poems of American History by Burton Egbert Stevenson (1908)
""After that all their movements were easy; At their storming Chapultepec fell.
... Chapultepec still remained, and on the morning of September 13 two ..."
4. History of the United States of America, Under the Constitution by James Schouler (1904)
"A stone castle bristled on the heights of Chapultepec, overlooking both the
foundry and the city, and threatening to dispute our passage. ..."
5. Travels in Mexico and Life Among the Mexicans by Frederick Albion Ober (1887)
"One regal arm is extended westward, pointing to the hill and castle of Chapultepec,
toward which from the base of the statue extends the grandest avenue in ..."
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