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The following information is obtained from the official A.B.M.C. website. We encourage you to visit their site by clicking on the link at the bottom of this page. The A.B.M.C. website has additional information as well as downloadable books on each cemetery. |
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Mexico City, MexicoThe Mexico City National Cemetery is located at 31 Virginia Fabregas, Colonia San Rafael, Mexico City, Mexico. It is about two miles west of the Metropolitan Cathedral and about one mile north of the United States Embassy. The cemetery was established in 1851 by Congress to gather the American Dead of the Mexican War that lay in the nearby fields and to provide burial space for Americans that die in the vicinity. A total of seven hundred and fifty unknown American soldiers were gathered and buried in a common grave at the cemetery. A small monument was placed over them that carries the inscription:
TO THE HONORED MEMORY
OF 750 AMERICANS
KNOWN BUT TO GOD
WHOSE BONES COLLECTED
BY THEIR COUNTRY'S ORDER
ARE HERE BURIEDIn this one acre area are also placed eight hundred and thirteen remains of Americans and others in wall crypts on either side of the cemetery. The cemetery was closed for further burials in 1923.
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