Mexico City Tour of Mexican-American War Sites #mexicocity

00:00:00 The Battle of Mexico City
00:33 Chapultepec
00:53 Los Niños Héroes
1:18 Belen Gate
2:51 San Cosme Gate
3:43 Mexico City National Cemetery
4:14 United States Victory
4:37 Zócalo march
5:11 Constitution Plaza

All video taken by Connor Smith; used solely for educational purposes.

Battle summary & casualty information gathered from:
-Ryan Quint, Mexican-American War 170th: Mexico City’s Gates, Fall of Mexico City; Emerging Civil War. URLs: https://emergingcivilwar.com/2017/09/13/mexican-american-war-170th-mexico-citys-gates/
https://emergingcivilwar.com/2017/09/14/mexican-american-war-170th-fall-of-mexico-city/

Photo sources:
-Zoomed image of “Battle of Chapultepec during the Mexican-American War, painting by Carl Nebel,” The War Between the United States and Mexico, Illustrated, 1851 (Public Domain)
-Zoomed image of "Genl. Scott's entrance into Mexico", Plate 45 from The War between the United States and Mexico Illustrated: Embracing Pictorial Drawings of All the Principal Conflicts by Geo. Wilkins Kendall, printed by D. Appleton & Company, New York, Carl Nebel original (Public Domain)

Sources photographed at Museo Nacional de las Intervenciones exhibits:
-Daguerreotype of “American volunteer infantry standing along a street in Saltillo, Mexico (reproducción), unknown author, Colección Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Fort Worth, Texas
-Belen Gate illustration from “Defensa de la garita de Belen (1847),” Autor desconocido, Estampa, Siglo XIX
-Zoomed image of San Cosme Gate representation from painting “Entrada Triunfante de Yturbide En Mexico Con El Exersito Trigarante Dia 27 De Sep De 1821,” unknown author (used without profit or commercial purposes)

“Under a brilliant sun” quote from:
-John S.D. Eisenhower, Agent of Destiny: The Life and Times of General Winfield Scott (New York: The Free Press, 1997), 299.

Wartime map zoomed from:
-”United States attack of Mexico City, September 13th and 14th, 1847,” Joseph Goldsborough Bruff; Library of Congress Geography and Map Division

Видео Mexico City Tour of Mexican-American War Sites #mexicocity канала Connor Smith