Battle of Ojinaga

Battle of Ojinaga
Part of the Mexican Revolution

Pancho Villa and Siete Leguas in front of their Dorados
Date10–11 January 1914
Location29°33′0″N 104°24′0″W / 29.55000°N 104.40000°W / 29.55000; -104.40000
Result Revolutionary victory
Belligerents

Constitutionalists

Government

Commanders and leaders
Pancho Villa Salvador Mercado
Pascual Orozco
Strength
5,500 4,500
Casualties and losses
35 3,500

The Battle of Ojinaga, also known as the Taking of Ojinaga, was one of the battles of the Mexican Revolution and was fought on January 11, 1914. The conflict put an end to the last stronghold of the Federal Army in Northern Mexico.

After the rebel Generals Toribio Ortega Ramírez and Pánfilo Natera García could not finish the place off, Pancho Villa arrived in Ojinaga with a large army, thus displacing the forces of Salvador Mercado from the city. The bodies had to be burned to prevent a typhus epidemic.