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Tango01 Supporting Member of TMP16 Jan 2024 5:15 p.m. PST

… la guerra contra EE.UU. por la que México perdió la mitad de su territorio


"Like every September 13, Mexico commemorates what is known as the "heroic deed of the Children Heroes of Chapultepec", which occurred in 1847.

This episode of history that is taught in schools as one of the greatest examples of patriotism in the country narrates the defense that a group of cadets from the Military College made of the Chapultepec castle against the United States troops, which had declared war. to Mexico a year earlier.

Despite their youth and their clear numerical inferiority against the invading troops, history tells that the six Boys Heroes – Juan Escutia, Vicente Suárez, Fernando Montes de Oca, Francisco Márquez, Agustín Melgar and Lieutenant Juan de la Barrera – joined to the Mexican soldiers and lost their lives in battle.

Although, without a doubt, the most notable and widespread event in Mexico is the one that narrates how Escutia, seeing that the fight was already lost, threw himself into the void wrapped in the Mexican flag that was flying in the fortress to prevent the Americans from taking over. her as a symbol of her victory…"
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