 In the middle of the year, Emperor Agustin de Iturbide ordered that the Former Inquisition Palace Complex become the headquarters of the now newly founded Military College of Mexico, the Military Cadet Academy and the Engineers Training School, all under their first director, Brigadier Diego Garcia Conde.By the next year, through the orders of War Minister General Jose Joaquin de Herrera, the Military College of Mexico was relaunched as a separate academy with headquarters at San Carlos Fortress, in Perote, Veracruz state.In 1824, in compliance with an order from President Guadalupe Victoria, 18 cadets of the now called "Perote Military College of Mexico", through the permission of then college director Col. Juan Dominguez y Galvez, became the first cadets of the new "Naval Aspirants College" and the "Tlacotalpan Nautical School" trained to be the Mexican Navy's future ship officers.