Battle of Cuernavaca

Battle of Cuernavaca
Part of the Mexican Revolution
DateSummer, 1912
Location
Result Government Victory
Belligerents

Government

Zapatistas
Commanders and leaders
E.L Holmdahl Emiliano Zapata (WIA)
Strength
50 50-100
Casualties and losses
Unknown Unknown, but heavy

The Battle of Cuernavaca was a battle during the Mexican Revolution, where Emiliano Zapata and his supporters rebelling against president Francisco I. Madero, who had recently overthrown the previous president Porfirio Díaz. Zapata was patrolling around his stronghold in the hills of Cuernavaca, where he was ambushed by a government force of Rurales under the command of the American Soldier of Fortune, Emil Lewis Holmdahl.