Madero calls Mexico to arms
1910 · Event
Cheated of an election he probably won and jailed by Díaz, the mild liberal landowner Francisco Madero escapes to Texas and proclaims the Plan of San Luis Potosí: rise on the 20th of November. The risings sputter at first — then Orozco and a bandit-turned-general named Pancho Villa start winning in Chihuahua.
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