Chapultepec

The stewardess announced that it was twenty minutes until landing. My heart thumped in anticipation as we flew over Mexico City’s skyscrapers and grand, old Chapultepec Park. Before long, I was in my aunt’s car as it weaved through suffocating traffic; I knew that soon I’d be hugging my grandparents and sharing a family feast. This is my parents’ homeland, where both grew up as part of the microcosm that is the Mexican-Jewish community, which makes up a tiny fraction of the country’s population

Women in Arms The United States Military is a very intricate and complex culture with many co-cultures branching out into even smaller sub cultures that have unwritten sets of rules, viewpoints, perspectives and operating procedures. These all depend on the branch of military, unit, unit history, job and rank of the individual. One unique sub culture unlike any other is the women in the service who have played a crucial role in winning wars since 1775. In recent years the military has been increasingly

claim that Texas's border was the Rio Grande was also a leading contributor to the war. Once America declared war on Mexico in 1862, the opposing sides participated in the Battle of Buena Vista, Palo Alto, Cerro Gordo, Resaca de Palma, Battle of Chapultepec, and many others. The advanced weaponry that America contained was the downfall of Mexico.The faltering Mexican government and the awful Mexican generals allowed Mexico to be defeated. General Winfield Scott and Zachary Taylor's forces defeated

Robert E. Lee was a very brilliant and strong military leader. He fought in many wars which he defeated them and he got defeated also. He was smart on how he fought in the wars. He had to earn his way up from the bottom all the way up to general. He had fought in the Civil War and in the Mexican War. He wanted to quit so bad but he never gave up and kept on going. Robert E. Lee was born in Virginia. He was the fifth child of Henry Lee who had served in the Revolutionary War. He was a very brilliant

He finished second in his class of 1829. He had experience early in his life, serving as a captain under General Winfield Scott in the Mexican-American War. He made himself most prominent in the wars of Veracruz, Churubusco, and Chapultepec. Lee’s general claimed that he was “the very best soldier I ever saw in the field (https://www.civilwar.org/learn/biographies/robert-e-lee). Due to his engineering background at West Point, Lee could use easily strategize against his opponents in

of the Marine Corps and also looks back on historic moments Marines have dealt with and overcome. Different parts of the Hymn refer to specific historical events. The first line “From the halls of Montezuma” refers to when the Marines captured Chapultepec Castle in 1847 during the Mexican-American War. The castle was in the heart of Mexico City, Mexico’s capital. It served as a military academy and also offered protection to the rest of the city. After its capture the treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo

Ulysses S. Grant Known as the Union General that won the Civil War, Ulysses S. Grant ranks to the publishers of theatlantic.com as the 12th greatest American of all time. Grant had a long journey from the time he worked in his father’s tannery to ending his career as president of the United States of America. Because he displayed many characteristics of heroism during his life, Ulysses S. Grant is considered a hero by many including myself. His bravery in fighting in the Civil War, his dislike of

The Mexican-American war, also known as the Mexican war happened between 1846 and 1848 with the participants being United States of America and Mexico. Texas, previously a Mexican state, was the primary cause of the war. A series of disagreements had occurred between Texans and the Mexican government leading to Texas declaration of its independence in 1836. Later, Texas decided to join the United States as the 28th state and this infuriated Mexico. Additionally, border disagreements came up with

Lewis Addison Armistead was a brigadier general in the Confederate Army during the Civil War. He participated in the Mexican American War, the Mojave War, and the Civil War. Armistead’s heritage included great participation in the military of the United States and ties to Virginia during the colonial period. Armistead was born February 18, 1817 in New Bern, North Carolina. Lewis came from a high-ranking military family. His father, George Armistead was the commander of Fort McHenry during the

part of the U.S. treaty with Cuba in 1903 and which provided for U.S. involvement in the rule of Cuba, was revoked in 1934. This emphasis on acting with other nations, or Pan-Americanism, continued during and after World War II with the Act of Chapultepec (1945) and the Rio Pact (1947), which declared that an attack on one American nation was an attack on all. The formation of the Organization of American States in 1948 was designed to achieve the aims of the Monroe Doctrine through Pan-Americanism