The defending force contained the battalion of San Patricio and cadets from the military academy who were immortalized as "los Ninos H?oes".  
The attackers came from the brigades of Trousdale and Pillow who attacked from in front of the Molina del Rey.  The defending force contained the battalion of San Patricio and cadets from the military academy who were immortalized as "los Ninos H?oes".  As the U.S. forces reached the crest of the mountain fierce hand-to-hand combat erupted that saw the wounding of Robert E. Lee and P.G.T. Beauregard and the outnumbered Mexicans withdrew in the face of Winfield Scott's army. For 10 points, what September 1847 battle was followed two days later by the occupation of Mexico City?
The attackers came from the brigades of Trousdale and Pillow who attacked from in front of the Molina del Rey.  
Chapultepec