The Heroic Military College (official in spanish: Heroico Colegio Militar) is a military educational institution founded in Mexico in 1823 in the former Palace of the Inquisition, under the name Cadet Academy taken in 1823 the name of Colegio Militar, settling in Perote, Veracruz, to return to Mexico City and occupied the Betlemitas monastery (where today are the Interactive Museum of Economy and the Museum of the Mexican army and air force) and from 1835 the building Recogidas (which would then set Pino Suarez, destroyed by earthquake 1985). Marine Cadets soon disassociated from the Military College where they founded the Military Naval School of Veracruz in 1897.