A ceasefire was declared in the civil war in Mexico as Madero and Diaz agreed to hold talks.
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Wednesday, February 11, 2026
Thursday, February 11, 1926. Calles attacks the Church.
Plutarco Elías Calles nationalized all property of the Catholic church in Mexico.
The degree to which the leaders of the Mexican Revolution were anti Catholic in a very Catholic nation is hard to overestimate, although at the same time, particularly in some regions, Catholic viewpoints were very represented amongst the revolutionaries. Emiliano Zapata in particularly was notably Catholic.
Be that as it may, Madero was not a practicing Catholic and had peculiar spiritual views. He was in fact a spiritualist and a Mason. Still, his victory in the revolution, temporary though it was, was seen by Catholics as an opportunity to form a Mexican Catholic political party, which they did. The Church condemned Madero's assassination.
It was that killing that sparked the second stage of the revolution. Álvaro Obregón and Calles both featured prominently in that, and both were anti Catholic. Calles was also a Mason. In that phase of the revolution, moreover, democratic forces, which had brought about Madero's rise, started to wane and with the murder of Zapata and the victory of Carranza Mexico headed off in a much more radically leftist direction. In some ways the Mexican Revolution, in spite of its romantic portrayal in American cinema, was much more of a 20th Century European Revolution, many of which featured radically anti Catholic leaders against Catholic populations in favor of utopian leftism.
Calles fit that mold and was the sort example in the office of president of Mexico. His anti clerical laws would lead to the Cristero War the following year.
Mexico remains a very Catholic country to this day and the Mexican people are very Catholic. But like other religious communities, the period of anti religious domination hurt the religious nature of the people nonetheless and the culture of the country. Mexico has never really recovered from the anti religious views of the revolution. Ironically, one of the beneficiaries of that has been Protestant Millennialism which has been successful in drawing in religious Mexicans who are unchurched, a byproduct of the revolution.
Actor Leslie Nielsen was born in Regina, Saskatchewan. He served in the Royal Canadian Air Force during World War Two as an aerial gunner, although he was not deployed overseas.
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Wednesday, February 10, 1926. Going to the League.
Sunday, February 18, 2024
OROZCO by SK GUNS and Pascual Orozco himself.
Wow, that's a wild commemorative.
Pascual Orozco was a Mexican Revolutionary who originally supported Madero before falling out with him. He was of immediate Basque descent, something we tend not to think about in regard to Mexico, which is in fact more ethnically diverse than we commonly imagine. He was an early recruit to Madero's 1910 revolution, and was a natural military leader, and could be rather morbid. After his January 2, 1911, victory at Cañón del Mal Paso he ordered the dead Federal soldiers stripped and sent the uniforms to Presidente Díaz with a note that read, "Ahí te van las hojas, mándame más tamales" ("Here are the wrappers, send me more tamales.").
On May 10, 1911 Orozco and Pancho Villa seized Ciudad Juárez, against Madero's orders, a victory which caused Díaz to briefly resign the presidency. Madero would naively choose to negotiate with the regime, which resulted in The Treaty of Ciudad Juárez allowing for the resignations of Díaz and his vice president, allowing them to go into exile, establishing an Interim Presidency under Francisco León de la Barra, and keeping the Federal Army intact.
Like Zapata, he went into rebellion against the Madero government, which he felt had betrayed the revolution. He openly declared revolt on March 3, 1912, financing it with his own money and confiscated livestock sold in Texas. His forces were known as the Orozquistas and the Colorados (the Reds). They defeated Federal troops in Chihuahua under José González Salas. Madero in turn sent Victoriano Huerta against him, who in turn were more successful. A wounded Orozco fled to the US. After Madero was assassinated and Huerta installed, Orozco promised to support him if reforms were made, and he was installed as the Supreme Commander of the Mexican Federal forces. As such he defeated the Constitutionalist at Ciudad Camargo, Mapula, Santa Rosalía, Zacatecas, and Torreón, causing his former revolutionary confederates to regard him, not without justification, as a traitor.
He refused to recognize the government of Carvajal after Huerta's fall and was driven into exile again. He traveled in the US in opposition to Carranza along with Huerta. In 1915, he was arrested in the US, but escaped. An unclear incident at the Dick Love ranch in Texas led to claims that he and other like-minded combatants had stolen horses from the ranch, which in turn resulted in a small party of the 13th Cavalry, Texas Rangers, and local deputies pursing the supposed horse thieve with Orozco being killed once the party was holed up. What exactly occured is not clear.
His body interred in the Masonic Holding Vault at the Concordia Cemetery in El Paso by his wife, dressed in the uniform of a Mexican general, at a service attended by a very larger gathering of admirers. In 1925 his remains were retuned to Chihuahua.
Why the commemorative? I have no idea. He is not an obscure figure in the Mexican Revolution, but not a well known one like Villa or Zapata. I can't see where he's associated with the M1911 either, a weapon that was brand new at the time the Revolution broken out. The .38 Super, which is apparently popular in Mexico, wasn't intruduced by Colt until 1929.
Monday, November 21, 2016
Revolution Day
Today is Revolution Day in Mexico, commemorating the overthrow of Porfirio Díaz.
Diaz had ruled for thirty five years. He was a dictator, but as dictators go, he was relatively benevolent. His overthrow was bizarrely brought about by an interview he gave to an American magazine suggesting that if the Mexican people were ready for democracy, so was he. This was picked up by Francisco Modero, who took him at his word, challenging him for the office, which was not really ready to give up. This ultimately lead to the Mexican Revolution.
The revolution, unfortunately, did not bring about democracy but instead the leadership of a series of leaders from the Institutional Revolutionary Party to the exclusion of other parties. Only within the last couple of decades has Mexico transitioned into a democracy.
Diaz had ruled for thirty five years. He was a dictator, but as dictators go, he was relatively benevolent. His overthrow was bizarrely brought about by an interview he gave to an American magazine suggesting that if the Mexican people were ready for democracy, so was he. This was picked up by Francisco Modero, who took him at his word, challenging him for the office, which was not really ready to give up. This ultimately lead to the Mexican Revolution.
The revolution, unfortunately, did not bring about democracy but instead the leadership of a series of leaders from the Institutional Revolutionary Party to the exclusion of other parties. Only within the last couple of decades has Mexico transitioned into a democracy.
Sunday, August 30, 2015
Monday, August 30, 1915. Pascual Orozco killed.
Mexican revolutionary Pascual Orozco was killed along with four others in a controversial gun battle against Texas Rangers and soldiers of the 13th Cavalry Regiment near the U.S-Mexican border. The pursuers had not realized they were chasing Orozco, but rather reported horse thieves. Whether or not they were stolen horses is unclear, and they may just have been set up.
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Saturday, April 9, 2011
Sunday, April 9, 1911. Second Battle of Bauche and the Socialist invasion of Baja California.
The Second Battle of Bauche took place as part of the larger Battle of Ciudad Juarez.
News was spreading on the American soldier of fortune attack at Mexicali.
The participation by Americans here was distinctly different than that which was seen at Juarez earlier that week as the American solders were members of the IWW. Their commander, Stanley Williams or Willian Stanley, the name varies in different accounts was a wobbly. At any rate Williams, who was killed in the battle at Leroy Little's Ranch, was reportedly a deserter from the US Army, in which he'd been a Quartermaster with the rank of Sergeant.
These troops had crossed from California and were mostly radical Socialist, showing the different character of the revolution in some part of Mexico. Largely forgotten now, American Socialist took a strong early interest in the revolution including such notables as Emma Goldberg.
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Friday, April 4, 1911. The First Battle of Ciudad Juárez commences.
Thursday, April 7, 2011
Friday, April 4, 1911. The First Battle of Ciudad Juárez commences.
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The First Battle of Ciudad Juárez commenced at the border city with 1,500 men under the command of Maduro, 500 under Villa and another 500 under Orozco, with American mercenaries under Captain E.L Holmdahl and Captain Karl Linderfeldt, launching their assault on Temosachi and Bauche.
The surrounded the city, which retained only one route to the outside.
Long time readers here may recognize Linderfeldt for his role at Ludlow, Colorado, which of course lay in the future at this point in time.
Linderfelt had served in the Philippine Insurrection and in China with the U.S. Army and Colorado National Guard. He's also served in the Mexican Army in 1911 and his name was in the Colorado newspapers frequently due to that at the time, usually under his nickname "Monte". Prior to the 1913 mine labor troubles in Colorado, he's been working as a mine guard. He was activated again during the Puntive expedition and then again for World War One, during which he rose to the rank of Colonel in the Colorado National Guard in spite of Ludlow. His name was frequently in the news in the teens, with the papers being very hostile to him at first, but later more sympathetic as the Punitive Expedition and World War One rolled on. The troops he was in command of did deploy to France, but not until October 1918, making it unlikely that hey saw much, if any, wartime combat. In 1919 he purchased a farm in Custer County, Colorado. In 1922, however, he was being foreclosed upon. He died at age 80 in 1957, at which time he was living in Los Angeles.
Homdahl had fought in the Spanish American War and the Philippine Insurrection, joining the Army at age 15, under Lee Christmas in Central America, and then as a mercenary in the Mexican Revolution. He's serve in the U.S. Army during World War One. He's one of the people accused of stealing Pancho Villa's head.
Homdahl as a Mexican Revolutionary.
Unlike Linderfeldt, Homdahl served the revolutionary side for most of the Revolution, before becoming disenchanted with Pancho Villa. He had some fairly substantial commands under Madero. In 1915 he was convicted in the U.S., along with some other Mexican Revolutionaries, of violating the neutrality laws. He turned against Villa shortly thereafter and sought to join the U.S. Army as an officer, which was denied to him because of his conviction.
During the Punitive Expedition he seems to have served as a scout for the U.S. Army, although the details are murky as the records were destroyed after the event. He began an extensive campaign to be pardoned which paid off in July 1917, although it also exhausted his financial resources. He thereafter rejoined the Army, but with difficulty due to prior wounds at first disqualifying him.
After the war he was a prospector and spent time searching for the "buried gold" of Pancho Villa. As noted, he's suspected of having stolen Pancho Villa's head, but he's not the only suspect. He died in April, 1963.
Linderfeldt certainly lived a life of adventure, but not a wholly admirable life. Linderfeldt certainly didn't live a wholly admirable life.
The Department of Justice obtained its first conviction of a member of the Black Hand, that being of Gianni Alongi for his role in sending death threats to butcher shop owner Garmila Marsala.
A fire at the Price-Pancoast Colliery at Throop, Pennsylvania, near Scranton, Pennsylvania, killed 73 coal miners, many of them boys.
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Wednesday, April 5, 1911. Remembering the victims of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire.
Sunday, March 6, 2011
Monday, March 6, 1911. Madero defeated at Casas Grandes.
Madero's forces unsuccessfully attacked government troops at Casas Grandes, Chihuahua.
Madero blamed his scouts for his defeat, and had them hung.
Samuel J. Battle was sworn in as the first black officer of the New York Police Department.
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Saturday, March 4, 1911. A refuge for elk.
Labels: 1910s, 1911, Art, Blog Mirror, National Elk Refuge, Poland, Russia, Texas, Wyoming, Wyoming (Teton County)
Friday, February 25, 2011
Saturday, February 25, 1911. Battle of Casas Grandes and Kelley Creek.
In the one instance of his acting as a field commander, Francisco Madero successfully oversaw revolutionaries in the Battle of Casas Grandes.
Madero, however, was almost killed, after which he stayed away from the front.
Shoshones under Mike Daggett, fleeing a killing for which they feared they would not receive proper justice, and after having butchered some cattle, were run to ground and killed at Kelley Creek, Nevada in one of the last Indian engagements of what might be regarded as the Indian Wars. Eight Shoshones were killed, of which two were children. Most of the party was related to Mike Daggett, who was killed in the battle. Of four members of the Daggett family who survived, all children and grandchildren, three died within a year of disease.
Daggett's daughter Heney (Louise, 17), and two of his grandchildren, Hattie (Harriet Mosho, 4))(left) and Cleveland (Mosho, 8).
It was one of the last "massacres" of the Indian Wars.
Berber chiefs meeting at Agourai determined to assassinate Berber pasha Thami El Glaoui and Grand Vizier Muhammad al-Muqri, to take place at a gathering of the leaders on March 14.
It was a Saturday.
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Monday, February 14, 2011
Tuesday, February 14, 1911. Madero reenters Mexico, John Browning patents the 1911.
Madero crossed back into Mexico from Texas to assume command of Mexican revolutionaries, and to evade a U.S. warrant for his arrest.
John Browning was issued a patent:
The House of Representatives approved a controversial reciprocal trade agreement between the United States and Canada, by a 221-92 margin.
Niobrara County, Wyoming, was established.
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Monday, February 13, 1911. Taking Durango.
Monday, February 7, 2011
Tuesday, February 7, 1911. Mexican Revolutions.
Lucio Moreno.
Gabriel Tepepa and Lucio Moreno started their rebellion. Their uprising was not coordinated with other Mexican revolutionaries, and most importantly not with Emiliano Zapata who was awaiting the return of Torres Burgos from his mission to Madero.
What this helps demonstrate is that the revolution that Madero sparked was never completely unified, and indeed, there were Mexican Revolutions, not a Mexican Revolution.
Orozco was fighting near Juarez in the Battle of Smelter View.
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Monday, February 6, 1911. Ronald Reagan born.
Friday, February 4, 2011
Saturday, February 4, 1911. Deadlocks.
A Berryman cartoon for this day in 1911.
Persia's Minister of Finance, Sani al-Dowleh, was killed in Tehran by two Armenian assassins who were Russian subjects, and whose legation provided them with sanctuary.
Francisco Madero, who was still in Texas at the time, offered Dr. Ira J. Bush a commission as the chief surgeon with the rank of colonel, which he accepted.
Former Boer General Piet Cronjé and advocate of attrition warfare, died at age 74. Because of his tactical viewpoints, he was shunned by the surviving Boer officers. And, indeed, that was not a wise strategy, particularly for the Boers whose numbers and nature favored mobility.
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Tuesday, December 7, 2010
Wednesday, December 7, 1910. Arresting your enemies.
Bolivian troops clashed with Peruvians in Guayabal, which was contested between the two states.
A headline in the New York Times:
MEXICO GETS US TO ARREST AZCONA; Enemy of Diaz Held Provisionally on Charge of Obtaining Money Under False Pretenses.
The headline referred to Juan Sánchez Azcona y Díaz Covarrubias
Azcona would go on to become a Maderoist and Carranzista
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Tuesday, December 6, 1910. Anti Trust.
Saturday, December 4, 2010
Sunday, December 4, 1910. Contesting forces in Mexico negotiate.
A peace commission in Chihuahua, Mexico attempted to broker a truce between the Diaz government and the "Maderistas" who supported Francisco I. Madero.
Cynthia Ann Parker, captured by the Comanche as a child and then recaptured by the Texas Rangers unwillingly as an adult, was reinterred in Oklahoma. She had passed away in 1870.
She was the mother of Quanah Parker.
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Saturday, December 3, 1910. Neon.
Tuesday, November 23, 2010
Wednesday, November 23, 1910. Provisional President of Mexico.
Undeterred by an unimpressive start to his attempt to overthrow the Mexican government three days prior, Francisco Madero proclaimed himself, with some justification, as "President of the provisional government of Mexico".
President Taft returned to the United States after visiting Panama and Cuba.
Visitor II, a yacht owned by Commodore W. Harry Brown, became the first vessel to travel the Panama Canal, which was completed as far as the Gatún lock.
The Army and Navy Academy, a prep school, opened in Carlsbad California. I've never heard of it, but it's still in operation, and has beachfront property.
It's interesting how many of these there were at one time, or for that matter, still are.
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Saturday, November 20, 2010
Sunday, November 20, 1910. Madero crosses. . . and then returns.
Modero in San Antonio.
Francisco I. Madero crossed into Mexico from Texas somewhere between Laredo and Eagle Pass at 6:00 p.m. with ten men and 100 rifles in order to start an armed insurrection against the sitting Mexican government.
Upon crossing, he found only ten additional men, and then returned to Texas to regroup.
It was, nonetheless, the beginning of the Mexican Revolution and it is celebrated today as Revolution Day in Mexico.
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Leo Tolstoy, age 82, died.
A great novelist, he was also an oddball in more than one way.
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