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    "title": "Battles of Mexico",
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    "date": "[\"1847–1848\"]",
    "year": 1847,
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        "Battlefields--Mexico--Mexico City--Maps",
        "Roads--Mexico--Mexico City--Maps",
        "Buildings--Mexico--Mexico City--Maps",
        "Mexico City (Mexico)--History--American occupation, 1847-1848--Maps",
        "Mexico, Valley of (Mexico)--Maps",
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        "Relief shown by hachures and pictorially.",
        "Shows positions and routes of troops by brigade, division, battalions, and batteries; location of fortifications, buildings, roads, streets, ranches, and terrain for Mexico City and the vicinity to the south and east.",
        "Includes key to symbols and casualty statistics for the battles of Contreras, Churubusco, Molino del Rey, and Chapultepec.",
        "In lower left corner: \"Bureau Corps T. Engineers. 3rd March 1848. Examined & approved, J.J. Abert, Col. Corps T.E.\"",
        "\"Entered according to the act of Congress, in the year 1848, by Curtis B. Graham, in the Clerk's Office of the District of Columbia.\"",
        "Inset: Part of the Valley of Mexico.",
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