21 Facts About Pascual Orozco

Pascual Orozco revolted against the Madero government 16 months later, issuing the Plan Orozquista in March 1912.

When Victoriano Huerta led a coup d'etat against Madero in February 1913 during which Madero was murdered, Pascual Orozco joined the Huerta regime.

Pascual Orozco was born to a middle-class family on Santa Ines hacienda near San Isidro, Guerrero, in the state of Chihuahua.

Pascual Orozco's mother was Amada Orozco y Vazquez ; the Vazquez family were second-generation Basque immigrants.

Pascual Orozco was not so much a hard-line opponent of Porfirio Diaz, but rather the local strong man Joaquin Chavez, a client of the major power holder in Chihuahua, the Creel-Terrazas Family.

Pascual Orozco led his forces to a series of victories against Diaz loyalists, and by the end of the year most of the state was in the hands of the revolutionaries.

Pascual Orozco was particularly upset with Madero's failure to implement a series of social reforms that he had promised at the beginning of the revolution.

Pascual Orozco believed that Madero was very similar to Diaz, whom he had helped to overthrow.

Pascual Orozco was then offered the governorship of Chihuahua, which he refused, and Madero finally accepted his resignation from the federal government.

When Diaz presented his resignation, Pascual Orozco was named to a relatively junior position, commander of the federal rural police in Chihuahua.

In June 1911, Orozco decided to run for governor of Chihuahua for the Club Independiente Chihuahuense, an organization opposed to Francisco I Madero.

Pascual Orozco financed his rebellion with his own assets and with confiscated livestock, which he sold in the neighboring US state of Texas, and where he bought weapons and ammunition even after an embargo proclaimed by US president William Taft in March 1912.

On 3 March 1912 Pascual Orozco decreed a formal revolt against Madero's government.

Pascual Orozco's forces, known as the Orozquistas and Colorados, defeated the Federal Army under General Jose Gonzalez Salas.

Pascual Orozco led campaigns against the Constitutionalist Army that sought to oust Huerta in northern Mexico.

Pascual Orozco defeated the Constitutionalist Army at Ciudad Camargo, Mapula, Santa Rosalia, Zacatecas, and Torreon.

Pascual Orozco traveled to San Antonio, St Louis and New York.

Pascual Orozco was placed under house arrest in his family's home at 1315 Wyoming Avenue El Paso, Texas, but managed to escape.

Pascual Orozco successfully executed a planned escape to Sierra Blanca where he met up with leaders and future cabinet members.

Pascual Orozco was the uncle of Maximiano Marquez Orozco, who participated in the Mexican Revolution as a colonel in the Villista Army.

On 3 September 1915 Pascual Orozco's remains were placed in space 13 of the Masonic Holding Vault at Concordia Cemetery in El Paso, Texas, at the decision of his wife, dressed in a full Mexican general's uniform, with the Mexican flag draping his coffin, in front of three thousand followers and admirers.