Word: durango
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Eighteen thousand warriors?the greatest single army in recent Mexican history ?were rumbling out of Mexico City in freight cars, led by ex-President General Plutarco Elias Calles, to do battle with the rebels in Durango, Chihuahua and Sonora. As bombing planes roared into the zenith, as President Herbert Clark Hoover hastened the despatch of 10,000 Enfield rifles and multitudinous rounds of ammunition to the Mexican government, as despatches announced that poison gas would be used, God Mexitl must have ruefully reflected that his own symbolic arms are a shield made of reeds tufted with eagle's down...
Professor McLaughlin went to Mexico last summer as geologist for a corporation which owns a rich silver mine on the Mess Central, a huge table and near the border of Durango and Sinalon, two native states on the West Coast...
...signal for the uprising was the mutiny of 800 troops in Mexico City, which was speedily put down. More serious revolts took place in Vera Cruz, Coahuila, Morelos, spreading eventually to the state of Chihuahua, San Luis Potsi, Durango. Government troops were successful, however, in overpowering the rebels at several important points and forcing them to take refuge in the mountains...
...flame of revolution is licking at the feet of President Calles of Mexico. Chihuahua, Coahuila, San Luis Potosi and bandit-ridden Durango are the latest states to be ignited, and the roar from the Mausers of firing squads is heard in the land. Eighteen members of the legislature of Morelos on Wednesday were taken from the chambers of their courtmartial to look briefly into the muzzles of rifles. General Alfredo Rueda Quijano, cavalry commander who sought to lead his troops in rebellion against Calles, waved farewell to three New York reporters in the courtyard of the San Lazaro Prison...
...July 18 the expedition reached Yerlaniz, a small Indian village in the province of Durango. The members of the expedition were forced to live in tents for the next two months because the village contained only the mud huts of about 100 Indians. Most of this time was spent in preparing apparatus for taking data on September 10, the day of the eclipse...