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Early in August the American army left Puebla and took up its quarters outside the capital, having approached by a route south of Lake Chalco.
Santa Anna, having learned these movements, began fortifications at the Bridge and Church of Churubusco, four miles south of the city. There is no town here, only a few little scattered houses; in the tim