chepultapec

Updated: May 2, 2025

At her throat was a superb sapphire set in a brooch, which had come out of the broncho boys' sapphire mines on Yogo Creek, and in her hair was an ornament of diamonds and rubies which the boys had made from jewels which had come as their share of the treasures of the Montezumas, which they had discovered beneath the castle of Chepultapec, near the city of Mexico.

Edward C. Taylor - Ted Strong's Motor Car : Or, Fast and Furious

'Great and glorious is HOLLINS, splendid is his fame, great is his victory, beyond all those of the Meads and Prussians, Cherrynea and Chepultapec, Thermopilus and Vagrom. Then it was telegrammed all over the South, and the rest of mankind, that HOLLINS had peppered the fleet, and pulverized the last particle thereof into small-sized annihilation.

Various - The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 2, February, 1862 : Devoted To Literature And National Policy

Wasn't the Mounted Rifles the crack regiment of the United States army? And wasn't the United States army the finest army in the universe? Who that knew anything of history would compare the Peninsular Campaign to the war in Mexico? Talk of Waterloo Britishers were mighty fond of swaggering about Waterloo! Let 'em look at Chepultapec.

Henry J. (Henry John) Coke - Tracks of a Rolling Stone