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11 unusual facts about Mexican Revolution


Álvaro Obregón Tapia

His parents, Álvaro Obregón Salido and María Tapia Monteverde, were prominent in the nation's history, with his father remembered as one of Mexico's most renowned personalities of the Revolution, who led the country as president from December 1920 to November 1924 and won another term in 1928, but was assassinated immediately thereafter.

Carmen Beltrán

The dangers of the Mexican Revolution, combined with her father's political connections, forced the family to flee into the mountains of Durango.

Emilio Azcárraga Vidaurreta

After the Mexican Revolution the company focused on safer investments, like the then-recently-developing radio industry.

Gun.Smoke

Los Pubro was made the final boss in the NES version as Wingate, a Mexican sadistic and bloodthirsty bandit with some features of an guerrillero of the Mexican Revolution, with a slash over one of his eyes, a cape and a machine gun.

Manuel A. Esteva

Manuel A. Esteva Ruiz (1878 – December 16, 1936) was the Consul General of Mexico to the United States in 1914 during the Mexican Revolution.

Mexican Revolution

In 1916, in retaliation for Pancho Villa's raid on Columbus, New Mexico, and the death of 16 United States citizens, President Wilson sent forces commanded by Brig. Gen. John J. Pershing into Mexico to capture Villa.

In a 1908 interview with U.S. journalist James Creelman, Díaz stated that Mexico was ready for democracy and elections and that he would step down to allow other candidates to compete for the presidency.

On March 9, 1916, Villa crossed the U.S.–Mexico border and raided Columbus, New Mexico, in order to extract revenge on an American arms dealer who sold ammunition to Villa that he used in the Battle of Celaya and which turned out to be useless.

Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Chihuahua

Because of the laws promulgated by the liberal government of President Benito Juárez, the Constitution of 1857 and the Mexican Revolution, which, taken together, had the effect of disenfranchising the Catholic clergy and large swaths of Catholic laity, studying for the priesthood became a difficult proposition for candidates in Chihuahua, and, indeed, in all of Mexico.

Topo chico

Approximately six years after it opened, the “Gran Fábrica de Aguas Minerales de San Bernabé” was established next to the spring, and in 1908, both companies merged to form what is known today as Compañía Topo Chico, S.A. Under the leadership of Manuel L. Barragán, the company managed to navigate the business climate following the Mexican Revolutionary war and become one of the largest and most respected beverage bottlers in the country.

Virden, New Mexico

After the mine was closed, the site was sold in 1916 to Mormons who had left the Mormon Colonies in Chihuahua during the Mexican Revolution.


Benjamín G. Hill

Benjamín Hill (Choix, Sinaloa, 31 March 1874 – Mexico City, 14 December 1920) was a military commander during the Mexican Revolution.

Camp follower

A notable example was the Mexican Revolution of 1910-20 where female soladeras filling traditional camp roles, carrying equipment and often acting as combatants were a marked feature of Zapatista, Villistas and Federale forces at all times.

Centro Cultural Mexiquense

More modern items include a printing press operated by José Guadalupe Posada), illustrations and etchings from José Zubieta and José Vicente Villada from the late 19th and early 20th century, Andrés Molina Henríquez and Francisco Murguía of the Mexican Revolution and Agustín Millán and Abundio Gómez from the latter 20th century.

Col. Charles S. Hamilton

While in Mexico, he obtained first hand information on Mexican postage stamp issues, and became an expert on stamps of Sonora and those that were issued by various postal authorities during the Mexican Revolution.

Dr. Belisario Domínguez Municipality

It acquired its present name in 1935 in honour of Belisario Domínguez, a senator for Chiapas murdered during the Mexican Revolution.

Edith O'Shaughnessy

Edith O'Shaughnessy (January 31, 1876 - February 18, 1939) was a journalist, biographer, film screenwriter and, as the wife of United States Chargé de Affairs in Mexico, Nelson O'Shaughnessy, during the early years of the Mexican Revolution she was both a witness and a participant in Mexican political affairs during the presidency of Francisco I. Madero and Victoriano Huerta.

Fidencio Castillo

He was born in Etzatlán, Jalisco to Trinidad Castillo and Raymunda Santiago shortly before the Mexican Revolution.

George S. Romney

After marrying and having several children, Romney returned to the United States at the start of the Mexican Revolution, specifically to flee the disruptive activities of Pancho Villa.

Mexican Revolution in popular culture

The first decade of the Mexican Revolution put an end to the years of "peace" that the country was used to during the Diaz dictatorship.

Piedras Negras, Coahuila

It was renamed Ciudad Porfirio Díaz in 1888, in homage to President Porfirio Díaz, but reverted to its original name following the Mexican Revolution.

Robert Runyon

In 1913, Runyon began recording the events of the Mexican Revolution, starting with the takeover of the Matamoros garrison by the Constitutional Army under General Lucio Blanco on June 3.

Second Battle of Rellano

The Second Battle of Rellano of 22 May 1912 was an engagement of the Mexican Revolution between rebel forces under Pascual Orozco and government troops under General Victoriano Huerta, at the railroad station of Rellano, Chihuahua.

The Revenge of Pancho Villa

The Revenge of Pancho Villa (1930–36) — Spanish title La Venganza de Pancho Villa — is a compilation film made by the Padilla family in El Paso, Texas, USA, from dozens of fact-based and fictional films about the celebrated Mexican revolutionary Pancho Villa (1878–1923).