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Altar a la Patria

Also known as Monumento a los Niños Héroes

Miguel Hidalgo, Miguel Hidalgo Borough, Ciudad de México, Mexico

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Get directions Bosque de Chapultepec I. Acceso Puerta Leones y Puente Metro. Se ubica frente Calzada Juventud Heroica.

Coordinates: 19.42146, -99.17940
www.chapultepec.org.mx/actividad/altar-de-la-patria/
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Funeral monument where there are deposited the remains of the defenders of Chapultepec's Castle of the assault of the invading North American forces On September 13, 1847. After the fall of the Castle, the chief of the winning forces, on having seen the corpses said: " they are children ", being known popularly to the group as " The children heroes ". They were: Lieutenant Juan de la Barrera, Cadet Agustín Melgar, Cadet Fernando Montes de Oca, Cadet Vicente Suárez, Cadet Juan Escutia and Cadet Francisco Márquez.

In 1952 the remains of the Colonel Felipe Santiago Xicoténcatl were buried also there.

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