Battle of Las Cumbres
Battle of Las Cumbres | |||||||
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Part of the Second French intervention in Mexico | |||||||
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Belligerents | |||||||
Second Federal Republic of Mexico | French Empire | ||||||
Commanders and leaders | |||||||
Ignacio Zaragoza | Charles de Lorencez | ||||||
Strength | |||||||
4,000 soldiers | 6,000 soldiers | ||||||
Casualties and losses | |||||||
50 killed 2 guns lost | 2 killed 32 wounded |
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Second French intervention in Mexico
(1861–1867)
(1861–1867)
1862
- Fortín
- Las Cumbres
- Atlixco
- Puebla
- Barranca Seca
- Cerro del Borrego
1863
- Jonuta
- Siege of Puebla
- San Pablo del Monte
- Tampico
- 2nd Atlixco
- Camarón
- Mexico City
- Chiapa de Corzo
- Morelia
- Guanajuato
1864
- Guadalajara
- El Jahuactal
- San Juan Bautista
- Mazatlán
- Acapulco
- Nanahuatipam
- Majoma
- Monterrey
- Matamoros
- Totoapan
- Colima
- Jiquilpan
- San Pedro
1865
1866
- Bagdad
- Santa Isabel
- Chihuahua
- Siege of Jonuta
- Santa Gertrudis
- Miahuatlán
- Juchitán
- La Carbonera
- Guayabo
1867
- Guadalajara
- Villa de Álvarez
- San Jacinto
- Monterrey
- 3rd Puebla
- Lomas de San Lorenzo
- Siege of Querétaro
- Mexico City
The Battle of Las Cumbres also known as the Battle of Acultzingo was a skirmish at the Acultzingo Pass between the French invasion force under Charles de Lorencez and Mexican republican forces under Ignacio Zaragoza. It took place on 28 April 1862. Despite holding the high ground, Zaragoza was not willing to risk his forces by engaging the French Army in the open. As the French troops seized the first line of Mexican entrenchments, Zaragoza withdrew his forces to their stronghold of Puebla.[1]
See also
- Battle of Puebla
- Siege of Puebla (1847)
- Siege of Puebla (1863)
References
- ^ Thomas Benfield Harbottle, George Bruce (1979). Harbottle's Dictionary of Battles (second ed.). Granada. p. 11. ISBN 0-246-11103-8.
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