Showing posts with label Mexico (Chihuahua). Show all posts
Showing posts with label Mexico (Chihuahua). Show all posts

Monday, June 22, 2026

Thursday, February 5, 2026

Sunday, February 5, 1911. First Battle of Bauche.

Mexican Federal troops, stopped the day prior at Bauche by rebels under Pascual Orozco, abandoned the railroad and commenced marching overland towards Juarez in an effort to relieve forces besieged there.

A revolution in Haiti was put down with the capture of rebel General Montreuil Guillaume.

Last edition:

Saturday, February 4, 1911. Deadlocks.


Wednesday, June 12, 2019

June 12, 1919. Villa arrives at Villa Ahumada.


The R34.  A British airship that had crossed the Atlantic.

Villa's forces arrived at Villa Ahumada, a town directly sought of Juarez.  Mexican forces commenced to prepare to receive Villa's assault.

Thursday, February 18, 2016

Monday, June 6, 2011

Tuesday, June 6, 1911. Advancing on Baja.

The governor of Chihuahua announced that Madero's troops, now in Mexican federal service, and Federal troops would march on Baja California.  He appealed to volunteers to help.

Mexican Gen. Manuel Mondragón Montenegro applied for a patent for a bayonet for his semi automatic rifle, which had been adopted by Mexico in 1908, although only a limited number of the rifles were in service by 1911.

Teenage and juvenile cigarette factory workers, Danville, Virginia, June 6, 1911.

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Monday, June 5, 1911. Colorado adopts its flag.

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.

Last edition:

Saturday, December 3, 1910. Neon.