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    The Battle of Celaya, 6–15 April 1915, was part of a series of military engagements in the Bajío during the Mexican Revolution between the winners, who...
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    Celaya (Spanish pronunciation: [seˈlaja] ; Otomi: Ndathi) is a city and its surrounding municipality in the state of Guanajuato, Mexico, located in the...
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    Álvaro Obregón, lost in victorious battle against Villa in the 1915 Battle of Celaya. The monument is on the site of the restaurant La Bombilla, where...
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    Abelardo L. Rodríguez (category Secretaries of economy of Mexico)
    army of General Francisco "Pancho" Villa. After some light combat, the Constitutional Army arrived at Celaya, where it fought the Battle of Celaya against...
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    Pancho Villa (category Governors of Chihuahua (state))
    victory) Battle of Zacatecas (1914 victory) Battle of Celaya (1915 loss) Battle of Trinidad (1915 loss) Battle of Agua Prieta (1915 loss) Battle of Columbus...
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  • Constitutionalist Army of Venustiano Carranza under the generalship of Alvaro Obregón defeated the army of Pancho Villa in the Battle of Celaya in April 1915....
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    Álvaro Obregón (category People of the Mexican Revolution)
    and San Luis Potosí. The armies of Obregón and Villa clashed in four battles, collectively known as the Battle of Celaya, the largest military confrontation...
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    División del Norte (category Factions of the Mexican Revolution)
    numbers of men. Despite having such numerical advantage, the División del Norte was defeated at the Battle of Celaya in April 1915 by forces of Álvaro...
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    Conventionists (category Factions of the Mexican Revolution)
    state, occasionally sending troops to Villa. Villa was defeated at the Battle of Celaya, followed by losses at León, Santa Ana, Aguascalientes, and Agua Prieta...
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  • The Battle of Celaya took place on 8 and 9 March 1858 in Celaya (in the state of Guanajuato, Mexico), an early battle of the Reform War. Fought between...
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    Villa's defeat at the Battle of Celaya in April of that year. As a result, by October 1915 Villa was in control of only his home state of Chihuahua, which...
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    Plan of Ayala. The two rival armies of Villa and Obregón met on April 6–15, 1915, in the Battle of Celaya. The shrewd, modern military tactics of Obregón...
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    Villa. After the 1915 Battle of Celaya during the Mexican Revolution, where Villa sustained his greatest defeat, the Division of the North was in a disorganised...
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  • del Norte in the Battle of Celaya, ending Villa as a national force. The Constitutionalists were eventually the victorious faction of the Revolution, with...
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    comrade-in-arms in the Battle of Celaya in 1915, and Villa's northern forces melted away Carranza became the de facto head of Mexico, and the U.S. recognized...
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  • Lists of battles Before 301 301–1300 1301–1600 1601–1800 1801–1900 1901–2000 2001–current Naval Sieges See also List of Napoleonic Battles Battles of the...
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    Emiliano Zapata (category Military history of Mexico)
    the winners to come. Even when Villa was retreating, having lost the Battle of Celaya in 1915, and Obregón took the capital from the Conventionists, who...
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    Venustiano Carranza (category Governors of Coahuila)
    President of Mexico in October 1915, and by the end of the year Villa was on the run. With the defeat of the División del Norte in the Battles of Celaya in April...
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    Rodolfo Fierro (category People of the Mexican Revolution)
    prominence is often cited back to the Battle of Tierra Blanca on 23 November 1913. The battle included 5,500 of Villa's soldiers, against an estimated...
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    Benjamín G. Hill (category Secretaries of defense of Mexico)
    "Obregón's lost right arm," alluding to the arm his cousin lost in the 1915 Battle of Celaya, defeating General Pancho Villa. Hill's paternal grandfather, William...
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    in Pancho Villa's División del Norte and was a veteran of the Battle of Celaya. The raiders of Glenn Springs and Boquillas took two captives with them...
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    10th and 11th Infantry, Tampico Coast Guards, Querétaro, Celaya and Guanajuato Activos, Celaya Auxiliary) and 6-8 lbs guns and 2 howitzers. Reserve Brigade...
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    Joaquín Amaro (category Secretaries of defense of Mexico)
    defeat of the villistas in the second Battle of Celaya. Following the battle, Obregón named him Comandante militar ("military commander") of the 5th...
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    forces of Gen. Obregón at the Battle of Celaya and was badly defeated in the bloodiest battle of the revolution, with thousands dead. With the defeat of Villa...
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    in the Battle of Celaya in 1915. The year 1987 saw the opening of the Lázaro Cárdenas station. In 1988, Aquiles Sedán honors the first martyr of the Revolution...
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    Emil Lewis Holmdahl (category People of the Mexican Revolution)
    the quicksand. Holmdahl proceeded to fight against Villa during the Battles of Celaya, Agua Prieta, and Nogales. Holmdahl also took part in the ongoing...
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    José Vasconcelos (category Secretaries of education of Mexico)
    Villa was defeated by the Constitutionalist Army under Obregón in the Battle of Celaya in 1915, and Vasconcelos went into exile again. Venustiano Carranza...
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    Apaseo el Grande (category Municipalities of Guanajuato)
    Querétaro in the State of Querétaro on the south by Apaseo el Alto, and on the west by Celaya. The municipality had a population of 85,319 inhabitants according...
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    Soldaderas (category Factions of the Mexican Revolution)
    factions split after the ouster of Huerta in 1914 and Obregón defeated his former comrade-in-arms Villa at the Battle of Celaya, Villa's forces were much reduced...
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    Blanca (1913) Battle of Ojinaga (1914) Second Battle of Torreón (1914) Battle of Zacatecas (1914) Mexican Revolution (1910–1921) Battle of Celaya (1915) Second...
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