Battle of Zacatecas
Idealizing representation of the battle for Zacatecas (left front: Pancho Villa, holding his hat in his hand; right front: General Felipe Ángeles, Villas artillery chief and military adviser)
| date | June 23, 1914 |
|---|---|
| place | Zacatecas , Zacatecas State , Mexico |
| output | Victory of the constitutionalists |
| Parties to the conflict | |
|---|---|
|
Constitutionalists |
mexican government ( federales ) |
| Commander | |
| Troop strength | |
| up to 25,000 | up to 12,000 |
| losses | |
|
around 1,000 dead and |
5,000–6,000 dead and |
1st phase: Overthrow of the Díaz regime (1910–1911)
Ciudad Guerrero - Casas Grandes - Agua Prieta I - Ciudad Juárez I - Torreón I - Cuautla I
2nd phase: Madero's presidency (1911–1913)
Vázquista revolt - Orozco revolt - Morelos campaign I - Decena Trágica
3rd phase: Revolt against the Huertas regime and US intervention (1913–1914)
San Andrés - Torreón II - Sinaloa - Ciudad Chihuahua I - Culiacán - Ciudad Juárez II - Tierra Blanca - Ojinaga - Cuautla II - Torreón III - Acaponeta - Tepic - Paredón - San Pedro - Veracruz - Tampico - Zacatecas - Orendaín
4th phase: Civil war between Conventionists and Constitutionalists (1914–1915)
Naco - Ramos Arizpe - Guadalajara - Blanca Flor - Halacho - Matamoros - El Ébano - Celaya - León - Trinidad - Aguascalientes - Agua Prieta II - Hermosillo
5th phase: Rule of Carranza and renewed intervention by the USA (1916–1920)
Columbus - Morelos Campaign II - Mexican Expedition - Ciudad Chihuahua II - Ciudad Chihuahua III - Horcasitas - Zapatas Offensive - Torreón IV - Estación Reforma - Rosario - González 'Offensive - Ciudad Juarez III
6th phase: restoration of central power and rule of the Sonorensians (1920–1934)
Baja California campaign - De la Huerta revolt - Cristero uprising - Yaqui war - Gómez – Serrano revolt - Escobar rebellion
The Battle of Zacatecas , known in Mexico as la toma de Zacatecas ("the capture of Zacatecas"), was fought on June 23, 1914 between the forces of the Mexican ruler Victoriano Huerta (1850-1916) and one of Pancho Villa (1878-1923) led constitutionalist army defeated. Villa's victory in what was then the biggest and bloodiest battle of the Mexican Revolution helped to seal the fall of the Huerta regime, but it also ushered in a new phase of protracted revolutionary struggles in which the various factions of the victorious revolutionary camp now fought for power.
literature
- Joe Lee Janssens: Strategy and Tactics of the Mexican Revolution, 1910-1915. Revolution Publishing, Houston 2019, ISBN 978-0996478953 , pp. 125-128.
- Friedrich Katz: The life and times of Pancho Villa. Stanford Univ. Press, Stanford, Calif. 1998, ISBN 0-8047-3046-6 , pp. 348-353.
- David F. Marley: Wars of the Americas: A Chronology of Armed Conflict in the New World, 1492 to the Present. ABC-CLIO Ltd 1998, ISBN 978-0874368376 , p. 623.
Web links
- Essay on the Battle of Zacatecas (private website; in English)
- La toma de Zacatecas (Mexican corrido on www.youtube.com )
References and comments
- ↑ a b c d As almost always in connection with battles, various publications contain differing information on the strength of the opposing armies and the number of victims. The information given here is based on Marley (1998), p. 623, and Katz (1998), p. 353. Regarding the number of deaths on the part of the federales , a statement by the constitutionalist General Pánfilo Natera, who died on June 29th, is informative 1914 reported that so far 4,837 corpses had been recovered, almost all of which were attributable to the government troops. According to him, numerous other dead were lying around unburied that day. Janssens (2019), p. 128.