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Halls of Montezuma is a 1951 American World War II war film directed by Academy Award -winner Lewis Milestone and starring Richard Widmark. It also stars Robert Wagner in his first credited screen role and features Richard Boone in his feature-film debut. The story is about U.S. Marines fighting on a Japanese-held island, and the title is a ...
Battle of Chapultepec. The Battle of Chapultepec took place between a U.S. force and Mexican soldiers holding the strategically located Chapultepec Castle just outside Mexico City, fought 13 September 1847 during the Mexican–American War. The building, sitting atop a 200-foot (61 m) hill, was an important position for the defense of the city.
Chapultepec Castle. Chapultepec Castle (Spanish: Castillo de Chapultepec) is located on top of Chapultepec Hill in Mexico City's Chapultepec park. The name Chapultepec is the Nahuatl word chapoltepēc which means "on the hill of the grasshopper". It is located at the entrance to Chapultepec park, at a height of 2,325 metres (7,628 ft) above sea ...
Halls of Montezuma. Halls of Montezuma may refer to: Chapultepec, a hill settled by the Aztecs near Tenochtitlan; now a park in Mexico City. Chapultepec Castle, a Spanish structure located on Chapultepec hill. "Marines' Hymn", the official hymn of the United States Marine Corps, which starts "From the halls of Montezuma". Halls of Montezuma ...
Marines' Hymn. The " Marines' Hymn " is the official hymn of the United States Marine Corps, introduced by the first director of the USMC Band, Francesco Maria Scala. Its music originates from an 1867 work by Jacques Offenbach with the lyrics added by an anonymous author at an unknown time in the following years.
Moctezuma II. Moteuczoma Xocoyotzin[N.B. 1] (c. 1466 – 29 June 1520), referred to retroactively in European sources as Moctezuma II, [N.B. 2] was the ninth Emperor of the Aztec Empire (also known as the Mexica Empire), [1] reigning from 1502 or 1503 to 1520. Through his marriage with Queen Tlapalizquixochtzin of Ecatepec, one of his two wives ...
Amiga. Commodore 64. MS-DOS. Release. 1987. Genre (s) Wargame. Halls of Montezuma: A Battle History of the U.S. Marine Corps is a computer wargame developed by Strategic Studies Group in 1987 for the Apple II. Ports were released for the Commodore 64, Amiga, MS-DOS, and Apple IIGS .
Milestone denied Halls of Montezuma addressed his "personal beliefs" on the nature of war; he agreed to direct the movie as a financial expedient. [190] Halls of Montezuma recalls some elements of Milestone's 1930 anti-war classic All Quiet on the Western Front. The film's cast, like the earlier film, was selected from relatively unknown actors ...