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Carranza's childhood home in Cuatro Ciénegas, Coahuila A young Carranza, c.1870s. José Venustiano Carranza de la Garza was born in the town of Cuatro Ciénegas, in the state of Coahuila, in 1859, to a prosperous cattle-ranching family [10] of Basque descent. [11] [12] During the Middle Ages, his ancestors fought Muslim forces for Castilian kings.
It took decades for Villa to receive official recognition as a hero of the Revolution. As with the others entombed in the Monument to the Revolution, his remains rest near some whom he fought fiercely in life, including Venustiano Carranza. One scholar notes, "In death as in life, Carranza would be eclipsed by Francisco Villa." [125]
So Carranza proposed to travel on foot north to San Luis Potosí. It was near the rural village of La Union that Carranza's small party was joined by the forces of Rodolfo Herrero. Herrero offered to guide and escort Carranza's party through the rugged rural area of northern Puebla. He escorted the party to the small settlement of Tlaxcalantongo.
Virginia Salinas de Carranza (September 20, 1861 – November 9, 1919) was the initial First Lady of Mexico after the Mexican Revolution. She was married to Venustiano Carranza , a major leader of the revolution and first constitutional President of Mexico from around 1917–1920.
Nellie (or Nelly) Francisca Ernestina Campobello Luna (November 7, 1900 – July 9, 1986) was a Mexican writer, notable for having written one of the few chronicles of the Mexican Revolution from a woman's perspective: Cartucho, which chronicles her experience as a young girl in Northern Mexico at the height of the struggle between forces loyal to Pancho Villa and those who followed Venustiano ...
Jesús Carranza Neira (June 16, 1813 – May 25, 1899) was a Mexican mule driver, rancher, and landowner. He was a veteran who fought in the Mexican–Apache Wars , on the side of Benito Juárez and the liberals during the Reform War , and for the republicans against the French intervention in Mexico . [ 1 ]
Natividad Herminia Álvarez Herrera was born in 1888 [1] Santa María del Oro, Durango, Mexico.She joined the Revolution in 1910 as a propagandist. [2] She joined the Mexican Revolution supporting Francisco I. Madero, but on his assassination in 1913, joined the anti-Huerta Women's Loyalty Club, participating in demonstrations distributing propaganda for the Constitutionalists with María ...
Title first used for all anti-Huerta forces in the north before the 1914 breakaway of Pancho Villa following the defeat of Victoriano Huerta.Venustiano Carranza, the "First Chief" of the Revolution, attracted talented generals to his faction, most especially Álvaro Obregón.