Giuseppe Garibaldi

How Lou Carpentier helped win the Battle of Juárez (and didn't even know it)

Pascual Orozco and Pancho Villa generally get credit for Francisco Madero’s victory in the battle of Juárez.  It wasn't always so.    They launched the attack against orders, and their irregulars showed remarkable initiative,  tunneling through the walls of houses as they advanced, and raining improvised hand grenades on the surprised federal troops, defeating the federal garrison in three days.

How Guisueppi Garibaldi survived the battle of Juárez

There are a lot of different versions of the first battle of Juárez.   Here is a good overview by Óscar Jáquez Martínez:

The battle of Juárez began very suddenly and without the knowledge of the Federals or Francisco Madero.  Against Madero’s orders a fairly large body of  insurrectos attacked the border city.  The group was led by Pancho Villa and Pascual Orozco and was joined by most of the foreign legion.  The insurrectos followed the irrigation ditch leading to Juárez and thus were not detected by General Navarro’s men.  The rebels fell upon the Federals and by the afternoon of May 8 began a general assault on the city.  On the second day the battle was fought almost entirely in the center of the city and by nightfall the rebels held all of Juárez except the bullring, the cuartel, and the church.  On the third day the rebels captured all of Juárez and General Navarro surrendered with five hundred men.  Colonel Garibaldi received Navarro’s sword.   -U.S.-Mexico Borderlands

An Interview with Francisco I. Madero

Just before the battle of Casa Grandes, journalist Timothy Turner finally tracked down  Francisco I. Madero, walking across the border to Guadalupe Victoria.    Just as Turner was introduced to Madero by Oscar Creighton, the dashing Giuseppi Garibalidi charged in hell for leather to report a federal column out of Juraez, cutting short the hard-won interview.   Turner piled onto a fleeing rebel supply wagon, with the wry observation:

Timothy Turner, gypsy love and "dynamite" Oscar Creighton

Journalist Timothy G. Turner was nursed in a newsroom and when he grew up, found that the only smell he liked better than printer’s ink was the sawdust and spit of a barroom. His father, Willis Hall Turner, “my pal” as Tim called him, died in March 1906 when Tim was a teen, after which he “was obliged to go to work in earnest” as a reporter, for the Grand Rapids Herald. His role as a cub reporter on the prowl for stories landed him in a gypsy camp where he was smitten by a young gypsy queen who taught him some of her Canaries Island Spanish.

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