21 Facts About Rodolfo Fierro

General Rodolfo Fierro was a railway worker, railway superintendent, federal soldier and a major general in the army of Pancho Villa during the Mexican Revolution in the.

Fierro and his counterpart and fellow lieutenant, Tomas Urbina, have been cited as the two halves of Pancho Villa, Fierro representing his malicious side.

Rodolfo Fierro's infancy passed without material deficiencies being one of the seven brothers most pampered by his adoptive family.

Rodolfo Fierro was fond of cockfighting, playing cards, horse racing, and dancing.

Rodolfo Fierro had come to this corp thanks to the recommendation of Don Jose Maria Paredes and where he always stood out for his bravery and intelligence in the assigned conditions.

Don Jose Maria Paredes pleaded with Luis Medina Barron for Rodolfo Fierro to be promoted to lieutenant and thus with a higher military rank he could woo the wealthy Luz.

Rodolfo Fierro's prominence is often cited back to the Battle of Tierra Blanca on 23 November 1913.

Rodolfo Fierro is then noted as riding on horseback after the escaping locomotive, climbing on to the locomotive, running across the roofs of the train cars, and shooting dead the boilerman and conductor, pulling the train to a complete stop.

Rodolfo Fierro is most known as Villa's executioner, known as.

In groups of ten the captured men were set out to run, Rodolfo Fierro alone firing his pistol at them as they ran, his soldiers handing him fresh pistols to continue firing without delay.

One captive is noted as making it over the wall and to freedom, only after Rodolfo Fierro stopped to massage an achy trigger finger.

The person, sitting across from Rodolfo Fierro, argued that a man shot would fall backwards, Rodolfo Fierro disagreed.

Rodolfo Fierro is known for the murder of William Benton on 17 February 1914, an Englishman and land owner in Mexico who had his land confiscated by Villa's forces.

Rodolfo Fierro was taken to the desert, where a hole was dug and Fierro is believed to have struck Benton in the head with a shovel, dumping him into the grave without checking to see if Benton was still alive.

In Guadalajara, Jalisco on 17 January 1915, Rodolfo Fierro's forces were surprised by an attack and forced to flee to Irapuato, Guanajuato.

Rodolfo Fierro was again defeated, losing two thousand men and eight hundred horses, the loss forced him to abandon Guadalajara as well.

On 14 October 1915, Rodolfo Fierro died after seemingly being thrown from his horse and landing in quicksand.

Rodolfo Fierro's body was retrieved by Kingo Nonaka, a Japanese photographer and combat medic for the Mexican Revolution.

Rodolfo Fierro is buried at the Panteon de Dolores Chihuahua, Chihuahua Municipality, Chihuahua, Mexico.

Rodolfo Fierro was portrayed by Damian Alcazar in the 2003 HBO made-for-television film And Starring Pancho Villa as Himself.

Rodolfo Fierro appears in Blake's novel Under the Skin as the father of the novel's protagonist, Jimmy Youngblood.