	Club History
	Biographies Index
	Main Menu

Rendezvous with History
The Aztec Club's Sesquicentennial Tour

American Cemetery
Mexico City, Mexico
October 8, 1997

At the American Cemetery, located just minutes away, we placed a wreath at the monument marking the site where 750 Americans who died in battle for the city silently lay, known today only to God.

The Mexico City National 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 died in the vicinity. In this 1-acre area are also placed 813 remains of Americans and others in wall crypts on either side of the cemetery. The cemetery was closed to further burials in 1923. On this site Lt. Ulysses S. Grant first commanded combat troops in Mexican War.

Click the image above to download and view a video presenting a brief narrated tour of the American Cemetery's landscaped grounds, architecture, and works of art. (12MB size)

Aztec Club visits American Cemetery 1897

John F. Reynolds Landis, an original member of the Aztec Club,
standing next to the American Cemetery Monument
during the Aztec Club's visit in 1897

Aztec Club visits American Cemetery in 1972

Leonard Lispenard Nicholson, III and John Conway Hunt stand
with newly placed wreath
at the American Cemetery Monument
during the Aztec Club's visit in 1972.

Wreath
Laying

Signing the Register

Signing the Register at the American Cemetery

Prayer
Delivered by
John Hawkins Napier, III

Almighty God, our heavenly Father, guide the nations of the world into the way of justice and truth, and establish among them that peace which is the fruit of righteousness, that they may become the kingdom of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Amen.

Monument to 750 Buried American Soldiers

The Monument to 750 American Soldiers

Members standing before monument

Frederick Brockway Gleason, III; Frederick Talley Drum Hunt; William Wiseman Huss, Jr.;
Richard Hoag Breithaupt, Jr.; John Hawkins Napier, III; Willard J. Blankenship;
Worthington Peter Pearre; Raymond Lawrence Drake at American Cemetery, Mexico City.

Memorial Inscription

The inscription on the Monument at Mexico City's American Cemetery

| Next Page |Original Members | Index of Biographies |
Return to Main Menu

Rendezvous with History The Aztec Club's Sesquicentennial Tour

American Cemetery Mexico City, Mexico October 8, 1997

Click the image above to download and view a video presenting a brief narrated tour of the American Cemetery's landscaped grounds, architecture, and works of art. (12MB size)

John F. Reynolds Landis, an original member of the Aztec Club, standing next to the American Cemetery Monument during the Aztec Club's visit in 1897

Leonard Lispenard Nicholson, III and John Conway Hunt standwith newly placed wreath at the American Cemetery Monument during the Aztec Club's visit in 1972.

Wreath Laying