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1) Obregon, Alvaro. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...Sonora, he supported Francisco I. Madero in the revolution against Porfirio Diaz. In 1913, Obregon joined Venustiano Carranza in the overthrow of Victoriano Huerta...

2) Calles, Plutarco Elias. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...statesman, president (1924-28). In 1913 he left schoolteaching to fight with Alvaro Obregon and Venustiano Carranza against Victoriano Huerta. In 1920 he joined Obregon...

3) Huerta, Adolfo de la. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...of the state (1920). This was a signal for the successful revolt against Carranza led by Obregon and supported by Calles. After Carranza's murder, de la Huerta was...

4) Carranza, Venustiano. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...against Huerta. Fighting in the north, he was joined by other insurgents, notably Alvaro Obregon and Francisco Villa; Emiliano Zapata led a peon uprising in the south....

5) Vasconcelos, Jose. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...headed (1920-24) the National Univ. of Mexico and, as minister of education under Alvaro Obregon, worked vigorously and with considerable success to establish schools,...

6) Celaya. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...was the first city to be captured (Sept. 28, 1810) by Hidalgo y Costilla. In 1915, Alvaro Obregon decisively defeated Francisco Villa at Celaya....

7) Espinel, Vicente Martinez. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...is best known for his picaresque, semiautobiographical novel Vida del escudero Marcos de Obregon [the life of Squire Marcos de Obregon] (1618), from which Le Sage...

8) Villa, Francisco. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...occurred after the Convention of Aguascalientes. A bloody contest ensued, with Alvaro Obregon taking the side of Carranza. In the midst of chaos, Villa, with Emiliano...

9) Zapata, Emiliano. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...the Federal District. After the overthrow of Madero, Zapata in the south and Carranza, Obregon, and Villa in the north were the chief leaders against Huerta. When...

10) recognition. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...policy on a new government, as illustrated by the nonrecognition of the Huerta (1913) and Obregon (1920) governments in Mexico and of the Communist government in...

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