A large part of war with multiple battles is the memoir by Porfirio Diaz to have his life from his birth on September 15, 1830, until 1866, when he was organizing the recovery of territory in southeast Turkey, which was held French invaders.
son of a family with a stable economic situation, not loose, he switched to the death of his father, José Faustino Diaz. His mother, Petrona Mory, was selling the properties they owned to the survival of his family, including the then boy, Porfirio. The maternal grandfather was an immigrant Porfirio Spaniard and his grandmother a Mixtec Indian. His family was mixed. For his part it ascendancy inherited Mixtec warrior.
The hardships and work were the child's life after budding seminarian and a lawyer before becoming a military career, this in practice. He learned carpentry and leather work and obtained the resources to support the family finances precarious. Describe what he liked to exercise and go hunting and was interested in the operation of weapons. The repair of weapons was also one of the ways to get support.
In his youth he joined the liberal cause and participated in several battles that gave them victory over the Conservatives. So it was pursued, leaving gracefully.
When he came up with the French invasion and was an officer with the rank of General. He was one of the protagonists of the victory over the French army at the Battle of May 5, 1862, when the Mexican army was commanded by General Ignacio Zaragoza.
resisted the siege of Puebla, in 1863, until lack of ammunition and food were forced to surrender the seat to the invaders. He was taken prisoner and refused to recognize Maximilian of Hapsburg rule. He escaped from prison. He reorganized his army. The government of the Republic, with Benito Juárez at the head of the resistance to the invasion, he was appointed chief of military operations in the south-southeast. Fully achieved the parcel. Recaptured the city of Oaxaca resisted a site until the ammunition and supplies were exhausted and had to surrender the seat to the French, being taken prisoner a second time. He turned to leak from captivity and again turned to reorganize the army of the East.
The volume is identified as first and ending on September 13, 1866. There may be a second volume that I know and continue on the reorganization of the army or Division East to achieve victory and regain the city of Mexico, capital, and restore the Republic.
Tough. Military tactics unpredictable enemies. Valiente. Patriot. These qualifiers can be the Liberal Army General. What happened with him to ascend to the presidency and prolong their stay in it demoted him to the Mexicans. The power did different. It ended up being a dictator repudiated by the people. Against him began the Mexican Revolution organized by Francisco I. Madero on November 20, 1910.
The school building is now where he was the Meson de la Soledad, where he was born in the city of Oaxaca de Juárez, is a plaque paying tribute to him: Here was born The September 15, 1830, Porfirio Diaz, Soldado de la Patria.
In his latest book, I am not here to make a speech, Gabriel García Márquez said that one of the products that America has given the world are dictators, some of them liberal in his youth. You are right, one was Porfirio Diaz, whose remains are still in exile in the cemetery of Monparnasse Paris.
Title: Memoirs of Porfirio Díaz
Author: Porfirio Díaz ; ; ;
Editorial: The French Book
Edition: Second, 1922
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