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Mexican Revolution   /mˈɛksəkən rˌɛvəlˈuʃən/   Listen
Mexican Revolution

noun
1.
A revolution for agrarian reforms led in northern Mexico by Pancho Villa and in southern Mexico by Emiliano Zapata (1910-1911).





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"Mexican Revolution" Quotes from Famous Books



... to announce to their friends their firm decision to stake their lives upon the freedom of their country. Two officers, the lieutenants Abasalo and Aldama, and several musicians, friends and companions of the cura, joined them, and by these men, thirteen in number, was the great Mexican revolution begun. ...
— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 57, No. 352, February 1845 • Various
... production and its consequent abundance of goods and services with mass marketing, social security and other crumbs of affluence scattered among the restless masses. But when the trade winds of the scientific and technological revolution blew in the Mexican Revolution of 1910, the Chinese Revolution of 1911 and the Russian Revolution of 1917, the Romanoff dictatorship was still ordering back the tide of social change and the dominant United States oligarchy ...
— Civilization and Beyond - Learning From History • Scott Nearing


Words linked to "Mexican Revolution" :   United Mexican States, revolution, Mexico


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