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

Saturday, December 6, 2014

Sunday, December 6, 1914. Villa and Zapata enter Mexico City.


60,000 men, the combined forces of Villa and Zapata, entered Mexico City. 

Carranza retreated to Veracruz.

Álvaro Obregón issued a 14 point statement on why he opposed Villa.  Part of the statement confirmed Pancho Villa had executed Scottish expatriate William S. Benton in February.

German forces occupied Łódź,

Serbians forced the Austro Hungarians back to Belgrade.

Last edition:

Friday, December 4, 1914. An alliance based on opposition.

Sunday, November 23, 2014

Monday, November 23, 1914. End of the US occupation of Veracruz.

The US occupation of Veracruz ceased.

Today In Wyoming's History: November 231914  The last of U.S. forces withdraw from Veracruz, occupied seven months earlier in response to the Tampico Affair.  The crisis in Mexico would continue, and spill over the border early the following year, an event which would cause the Federalization of the National Guard, including Wyoming's.

Germans Escape After Being Surrounded Near Lodz

Last edition:

Saturday, November 21, 1914. 91,000 Canadians, 74,000 Ivy League football fans.

Sunday, September 14, 2014

Tuesday, September 15, 1914. Wilson: Vámonos. Beyers: Ek het opgehou.

President Wilson ordered American forces out of Veracruz.

The pro German Boer Maritz rebellion started in South Africa when Commandant General of the Union Defence Force Christian Frederic Beyers resigned from his commission in protest of the South African government's decision to provide military support to the British Empire.

Beyers, along with General Koos de la Rey then traveled to the armory at Potchefstroom to meet with commanding officer Major Jan Kemp. De la Rey was killed by police fire on the way.

Allied forces in France commenced digging trenches, the first ones dug in the Great War.

Gertie, the Wonderfully Trained Dinosaur, premiered.


Unlike the advertisements, it was in black and white.

Last edition:  

Sunday, September 13, 1914. Improved Allied Positions In The West.

Tuesday, May 6, 2014

Wednesday, May 6, 1914. No votes for British women.

The House of Lords rejected the Women's Suffrage Bill. The vote was 104 to 60.  A person has to wonder if the recent terror strikes by suffragist had a negative impact.

Cheyenne revealed that Gen. Funson was authorized to "extend his lines in Mexico", by which readers learned the paper was referring to Vera Cruz, not anywhere on the border.


While I was aware that the then legendary Gen. Frederick Funston was in command on the border, I wasn't aware that this extended all the way to Vera Cruz.

Cheyenne was wanting a railroad bridge at Guernsey repaired.

Schlitz took out a full page add in the same paper.


Last prior edition:

Wednesday, April 23, 2014

Thursday, April 23, 1914. Wrigley Field Opens, War Panic.

 


April 23, 1914: Chicago Feds open Weeghman Park, later known as Wrigley Field

The first game was between the Chicago Whales and the Kansas City Packers.



The Casper paper may have been a bit off the mark:


Mexicans were not happy, however, about the massively heavy-handed overreaction of the United States at Veracruz.



Last prior edition:

Wednesday, April 22, 1914. Fighting in Veracruz