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MEXICO'S ROLE IN WORLD
POLITICS
Mexican History 1918
Mexican Revolution
Timeline - Year 1918
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February 1918
Emiliano Zapata sends a number of proposals to
Venustiano Carranza
but Carranza refuses
even to respond.
William E. Gates,
an American archaeologist, arrives at Zapata's headquarters
at Tlaltizapán.
Gates advises Zapata to get things
straightened out before the U.S. gets their |
focus off the
Great
War and back towards Mexico. If by then Mexico would still
feature internal struggle, America would be ready to seize the
nation's sovereignty.
April 25, 1918
Emiliano Zapata
issues a manifesto to all Mexican People, trying to rally all
types of revolutionaries, but without success.
Bad harvest in 1918.
Zapata becomes dark, irritable, and
grumpy.
Mid-August 1918
Emiliano Zapata writes to the retired
Alvaro Obregon
and urges him to declare
opposition to
Venustiano Carranza. Zapata issues a leaflet titled A Toast To
Álvaro Obregón. Heck knows if and what Obregon replied.
November 11, 1918
The
Great War is officially over.
November 21, 1918
Another day of correspondence for
Emiliano Zapata.
He writes to
Felipe Ángeles, who is exiled in Texas,
and asks him if
he would use his intimate friendship with Field Marshal Foch,
the French commander, to win "powerful moral influence" for the
Revolution?
Mid-December 1918
General Pablo
González resumes his
Morelos
offensive. Over 11,000 troops
march into Morelos' major towns where they find the peasants mostly
fled or dead. The
guerrillas
took to the hills once more.
Felipe Ángeles comes back from
voluntary exile in El Paso, TX, and joins
Pancho Villa's
outfit.
Winter 1918 / 1919 is a tuff sucker. The
Spanish influenza sweeps south from Mexico City and leaves a death
rate of 42 per 1,000.
Zapata's army gets reduced by half.
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