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Battle Of San Andrés
The Battle of San Andrés, also known as the Charge at San Andrés, took place during the Mexican Revolution and was fought on August 26–27, 1913. Revolutionary leader General Pancho Villa attacked the town of San Andrés, and the battle concluded when the American soldier of fortune charged the federal positions and routed the enemy. A thousand government soldiers were killed, and 400 prisoners were executed by Villa's self styled executioner, Rodolfo Fierro. Battle Throughout the summer of 1913, Villa was at the peak of his success, winning battles against president Victoriano Huerta and his army. His infamous division of the north had a strength of almost 50,000 troops, loyal only to Villa. Although Venustiano Carranza was the nominal leader of the revolt, it was Villa and his men who did most of the fighting. In short order, Villa had captured Guerrero, Bustillos, and Cras Grandes. In August 1913, Villa stationed his army outside the town of San Andrés and launched his ...
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Mexican Revolution
The Mexican Revolution () was an extended sequence of armed regional conflicts in Mexico from 20 November 1910 to 1 December 1920. It has been called "the defining event of modern Mexican history". It saw the destruction of the Federal Army, its replacement by a Liberation Army of the South, revolutionary army, and the transformation of Mexican culture and Federal government of Mexico, government. The northern Constitutionalists in the Mexican Revolution, Constitutionalist faction prevailed on the battlefield and drafted the present-day Constitution of Mexico, which aimed to create a strong central government. Revolutionary generals held power from 1920 to 1940. The revolutionary conflict was primarily a civil war, but foreign powers, having important economic and strategic interests in Mexico, figured in the outcome of Mexico's power struggles; United States involvement in the Mexican Revolution, the U.S. involvement was particularly high. The conflict led to the deaths of around ...
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Victoriano Huerta
José Victoriano Huerta Márquez (; 23 December 1850 – 13 January 1916) was a Mexican general, politician, engineer and dictator who was the 39th President of Mexico, who came to power by coup against the democratically elected government of Francisco I. Madero with the aid of other Mexican generals and the U.S. Ambassador to Mexico. Establishing a military dictatorship, his violent seizure of power set off a new wave of armed conflict in the Mexican Revolution. After a military career under President Porfirio Díaz and Interim President Francisco León de la Barra, Huerta became a high-ranking officer during the presidency of Madero during the first phase of the Mexican Revolution (1911–13). In February 1913, Huerta joined a conspiracy against Madero, who entrusted him to control a revolt in Mexico City. The Ten Tragic Days – actually fifteen days – saw the forced resignation of Madero and his vice president and their murders. The coup was backed by the German Empire as ...
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1913 In Mexico
Events from the year 1913 in Mexico. Incumbents Federal government *President: **Francisco I. Madero (until February 19) ** Pedro Lascuráin (c. 45 minutes on February 19) **Victoriano Huerta (starting February 19) *Vice-President: José María Pino Suárez *Secretary of the Interior: Rafael Hernández, Alberto García Granados, Aureliano Urrutia, Manuel Garza Aldape, Ignacio Alcocer Governors * Aguascalientes: * Campeche: Manuel Castilla Brito/ Felipe Bueno/ Manuel Rojas Moranos/ Manuel Rivera * Chiapas: Flavio Guillén/Marco Aurelio Solís/Reynaldo Gordillo León/ Bernardo Palafox * Chihuahua: Abraham González/Antonio Rábago/ Salvador R. Mercado/Francisco Villa * Coahuila: Ignacio Alcocer/Venustiano Carranza * Colima: José Trinidad Alamillo/ Vidal Fernández/ Miguel M. Morales/ Julián Jaramillo/ Juan A. Hernández * Durango: * Guanajuato: Fernando Dávila * Hidalgo: * Jalisco: José M. Mier * State of Mexico: José Refugio Velasco/ Joaquín Beltrán Castañar ...
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Martín Luis Guzmán
Martín Luis Guzmán Franco (October 6, 1887 – December 22, 1976) was a Mexican novelist and journalist. Along with Mariano Azuela and Nellie Campobello, he is considered a pioneer of the revolutionary novel, a genre inspired by the experiences of the Mexican Revolution of 1910. He spent periods in exile in the United States and Spain. He founded newspapers, weekly magazines, and publishing companies. In 1958, he was awarded Mexico's National Prize in Literature. Life Guzmán was born in Chihuahua, Chihuahua, the son of a colonel in the Federal Army, who was attached to the Mexican consulate in Phoenix, Arizona, U.S. His father was killed in one of the early skirmishes of the Mexican Revolution and Guzmán left for Mexico City. For several months in 1914, he was under the direct orders of General Francisco "Pancho" Villa, later writing a five-volume biography of Villa, ''Memorias de Pancho Villa'' (1936–1951). On Villa's orders, Guzmán witnessed the entry of Venustiano Ca ...
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Mexican Legion Of Honor
The modern Mexican Legion of Honor (Spanish: ''Legión de Honor Mexicana'') is an order of merit awarded to soldiers, veterans, and others who have made outstanding contributions to the national defense, security, or sovereignty of Mexico. An earlier, post-revolutionary version was organized as a military reserve force. Precursor A forerunner to the modern Legion was founded in 1917 under President Venustiano Carranza to provide an "honorable location for excess officers of the Constitutional Army." It was available for use as a reserve force in case of national emergency, and also provided training for new recruits. History The modern Mexican Legion of Honor was created in a 1949 decree by President Miguel Alemán Valdés to "honor soldiers during their lifetime" who had contributed to the national defense, or who had contributed in some form to the social achievements enshrined in the Constitution. Eligibility changes included admission for those who had served the cou ...
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Luz Corral
Luz may refer to: People and fictional characters * Luz (name), including a list of people and fictional characters with the given name, nickname or surname, including Spanish and Portuguese * Luz (cartoonist), pen name of French cartoonist Rénald Luzier (born 1972) Places * Luz (biblical place), either of two cities mentioned in the Bible * Luz, Minas Gerais, Brazil, a municipality ** Roman Catholic Diocese of Luz, in the city of Luz in the ecclesiastical province of Belo Horizonte * Luz (Santa Cruz da Graciosa), Portugal, a civil parish in the Azores * Luz, a parish of Mourão, Alentejo, Portugal * Luž, Czech for Lausche, a mountain in the German state of Saxony * Our Lady of Light Church, Chennai, known as Luz Church Arts and entertainment * ''Luz'' (Djavan album), 1982 * ''Luz'' (Luz Casal album), 1982 * ''Luz'' (Cuca Roseta album), 2017 * ''Luz'' (No Te Va Gustar album), 2021 * ''Luz'' (2018 film), a German horror film * ''Luz'' (2019 film), a Colombian drama film ...
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Vicente Guerrero, Chihuahua
Vicente Guerrero is a town and seat of the municipality of Guerrero, in the northern Mexican state of Chihuahua. As of 2010, the town had a population of 7,751, up from 6,536 as of 2005.Instituto Nacional de Estadística y Geografía The National Institute of Statistics and Geography (INEGI from its former name in ) is an autonomous agency of the Mexican Government dedicated to coordinate the National System of Statistical and Geographical Information of the country. It w .... ''Principales resultados por localidad 2005'' (ITER). Retrieved on October 13, 2008 It was the location of the March 1916 Battle of Guerrero. References Populated places in Chihuahua (state) {{Chihuahua ...
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Venustiano Carranza
José Venustiano Carranza de la Garza (; 29 December 1859 – 21 May 1920), known as Venustiano Carranza, was a Mexican land owner and politician who served as President of Mexico from 1917 until his assassination in 1920, during the Mexican Revolution. He was previously Mexico's de facto head of state as ''Primer Jefe'' () of the Constitutionalist faction from 1914 to 1917, and previously served as a senator and governor for Coahuila. He played the leading role in drafting the Constitution of 1917 and maintained Mexican neutrality in World War I. Born in Coahuila to a prominent landowning family, he served as a senator for his state during the Porfiriato, appointed by President and de facto dictator Porfirio Díaz. After becoming alienated from Díaz, he supported the Liberal Francisco Madero's challenge to Díaz during the 1910 presidential election. Madero was defeated in a sham election and imprisoned. Madero ordered an overthrow of the government, sparking the Mexic ...
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Emil Lewis Holmdahl
Emil Lugwig "Lewis" Holmdahl (August 26, 1883 â€“ April 8, 1963) was an American soldier of fortune, infantryman, machine gunner, spy, gun runner, and treasure hunter who fought under Frederick Funston and John J. Pershing in the Spanish–American War Campaigns, Spanish–American War and subsequent Philippine–American War (Philippine Insurrection), under Lee Christmas in Central America, under Francisco Madero, Pancho Villa, and Venustiano Carranza in the Mexican Revolution, and under John J. Pershing again in World War I. In 1926, Holmdahl was accused of having stolen Francisco "Pancho" Villa's head. Early life Emil Lugwig "Lewis" Holmdahl was born on August 26, 1883, in the Swedetown area of Fort Dodge, Iowa, to Swedish-American parents, Frans "Frank" Emil Holmdahl and his wife Cecelia Andrina Olson, the 6th of 7, possibly 8 children. His siblings were Amanda Esther Holmdahl (1875–?), Andrew Licerus Holmdahl (1876–?), August Emmanuel Holmdahl (1878–?), Monvil ...
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Chihuahua (state)
Chihuahua, officially the Free and Sovereign State of Chihuahua, is one of the 31 states which, along with Mexico City, comprise the Political divisions of Mexico, 32 federal entities of Mexico. It is located in the northwestern part of Mexico and is bordered by the states of Sonora to the west, Sinaloa to the southwest, Durango to the south, and Coahuila to the east. To the north and northeast, it shares an extensive U.S.–Mexico border, border with the U.S. adjacent to the U.S. states of New Mexico and Texas. The state was named after its capital city, Chihuahua City; the largest city is Ciudad Juárez. In 1864 the city of Chihuahua was declared capital of Mexico by Benito Juárez, Benito Juarez during the Reform War and French intervention. The city of Parral, Chihuahua, Parral was the largest producer of silver in the world in 1640. During the Mexican War of Independence, Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla, Miguel Hidalgo was executed on July 30, 1811, in Chihuahua city. Although C ...
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Julio Cárdenas
Julio Cárdenas (unknown – May 14, 1916) was a captain in Pancho Villa's Villista military organization. He was second-in-command to Villa and the head of his personal bodyguard. The Battle of Columbus, New Mexico New Mexico is a state in the Southwestern United States, Southwestern region of the United States. It is one of the Mountain States of the southern Rocky Mountains, sharing the Four Corners region with Utah, Colorado, and Arizona. It also ..., in which 18 Americans were killed, sparked the campaign, led by General John J. Pershing, to eradicate Villa's organization. One of Pershing's aides-de-camp was Lt. George S. Patton, who had been searching haciendas of known Villa leaders while on a foraging expedition to obtain corn for horses. Cárdenas and two other men (a private and a captain in the Villa force) were found during a carefully planned search of the San Miguelito Ranch, after Patton arrived in three cars with ten additional American troopers and tw ...
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Rodolfo Fierro
General Rodolfo Fierro (1885 – 14 October 1915) was a railway worker, railway superintendent, federal soldier and a major general in the army of Pancho Villa during the Mexican Revolution in the . Fierro and his counterpart and fellow lieutenant, Tomas Urbina, have been cited as the two halves of Pancho Villa, Fierro representing his malicious side. It is believed Fierro met Pancho Villa in 1913 following the Madero revolution. Originating from Sinaloa, Fierro was a former federal officer having taken part in fighting against the Yaqui Indians. Following his role as a federal officer, Fierro went on to work as a railway man, eventually being absorbed into Villa's ranks. Early life Although his date of birth is unknown, in his death certificate, it is read that he died at the age of 30 in 1915, which would make his birth year 1885. What is certain is that Rodolfo Fierro was born in the village of Charay, municipality of El Fuerte in the state of Sinaloa, being the son of Và ...
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