Word: rebel
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...machine gun. Then the pepper pyre was lighted. Thick clouds of oily, acrid, pepper smoke poured up to envelop the steeple, blind, gag, choke. Passed ten minutes. Then the bolts of the church door grated. Out to surrender filed a sorry, coughing, spitting, weepy little crew of federals. Their rebel captors, pious, had thus avoided the desecration of bursting open a church. Entering the sacred edifice with loud, exultant hosannahs and cries of "Christ is King" they sat down and soon partook of the feast of the Eucharist. Untroubled by the transitory rebel occupation of Cocula, General Calles wired...
...chief general of the rebel forces, Gonzalo Escobar, had just fled from Torreon before the advance of Calles and his three federal columns. Theirs was the victory, but it was a hollow one. The wily General Escobar had looted five Torreon banks of $510,000 before he left. General Calles could see the outraged banks from where he ate, their windows broken, their vaults violated and bare...
Courtly Prelude. With General Calles at Torreon in the north, rebel commanders made a flank attack around the western wing of the federals and struck at Mazatlan, the chief Pacific port of Mexico, northwest of the capital. The leaders of this thrust were General Ramon ("Sacristan"*) Iturbe and heavy-jowled Francisco Manzo. Advancing from the north and obscurity they took their place in the news. Halting the army of about 5,000 men, "Sacristan" Iturbe entered a telephone booth and called General Jaime Carillo, defender of the seaport...
...height of the uproar, with both sides deadlocked, the federal gunboat Progresso steamed into the harbor and furiously pumped shells in the direction of the rebel lines...
...called because of his religious leanings. Governor Fausto Topete of Sonora, rebel state...