Saturday, October 2, 1915. Banditry.

Pueblo Nuevo, Guanajuato was attacked by around 700 armed men on horseback thought to retreating members of Villa's army.  Locals resisted the attack, which amounted to banditry.

Following a drunken knife assault on Finnish immigrant Oscar Carlson in Wrangell, Alaska, a town authorized vigilance committee drove Mexican dock workers out of the town.  One of them was the guilty party, which had asked Carlson to fight or drink with them.  Ultimately, one was arrested and served time for the assault, but not before Mexicans in general had been driven out of the town.

New dockworkers from Mexico would return the following year.

An interesting aspect of this is that I wouldn't have thought there were Mexican dock workers in Alaska at the time.

It was a Saturday.

The childhood style of sailor suits for children is evident here, and is really odd.  It apparently had been started by Queen Victoria dressing her son in a sailor suit for an 1846 trip on the royal yacht.

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Friday, October 1, 1915. Sedicioista raids stop.

Labels: 1910s, 1915, Constitutionalist Army, Mexican Revolution, Mexico, Sedicionistas, Texas, Venustiano Carranza

Wednesday, March 10, 1909. Field Gray.

The Imperial Russian Army adopted a new greenish-grey, single-breasted cloth tunic with five buttons.  The familiar uniform would remain in use at least until after the Russian Civil War. At some point an updated version, which really wasn't much different than it, would replace it prior to World War Two.

The uniform closely resembled a prior one, which didn't feature the field gray color.  I don't know a great deal about Russian uniforms, so I'll cease particular comment there.  

This era, the turn of the 19th into the 20th Centuries, saw almost all armies making a switch of this type, something brought about by the adoption of smokeless gunpowder, which changed battlefield conditions, bringing about a need for subdued uniforms. The British had used khaki in Indian since 1846 but went to service wide khaki in 1902, something that can be confusing in terms of the British as "khaki" has a broader meaning than the color tan in British military parlance.  The U.S. Army adopted khaki, i.e., tan, in 1898 for field use and then introduced an olive uniform in 1902.  The Prussian element of the Imperial German Army adopted field gray in 1907, and the rest of the German Army followed during World War One.  The French, however, were holdouts, retaining a colored uniform throughout World War One, with horizon blue being its wartime choice.

Thailand (Siam) ceded the Malayan peninsular states of Kelantan, Trengganu, Perlis and Kedah to the British Empire.

Jack Johnson fought Victor McLaglen, better known as a legendary character actor, to a draw in Vancouver in an exhibition fight.

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Tuesday, March 9, 1909. San Bernardino.