Constitutionalist Army

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The Constitutionalist Army was the revolutionary military force led primarily by Venustiano Carranza that fought to overthrow Victoriano Huerta and helped shape post-revolutionary Mexico.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf military organization
revolutionary army
country Mexico
endTime circa 1917
foughtAgainst Federal Army of Victoriano Huerta
Villista forces
Zapatista forces
foughtIn Mexican Revolution
hasObjective overthrow of Victoriano Huerta
restoration of constitutional order in Mexico
hasPart Army of the Northwest
surface form: Army of the Northeast

Army of the Northwest
Northern Division
hasPoliticalWing Constitutionalist forces of Mexico
surface form: Constitutionalist faction led by Venustiano Carranza
headquartersLocation Coahuila
ideology Constitutionalist forces of Mexico
surface form: Anti-Huerta faction of the Mexican Revolution

Republicanism
surface form: Constitutionalism
influenced Mexican Constitution of 1917
surface form: Constitution of Mexico of 1917
language Spanish
leader Venustiano Carranza
notableBattle Battle of Zacatecas (1914)
surface form: Battle of Zacatecas (indirectly via Northern Division)
notableCommander Francisco Murguía NERFINISHED
Lucio Blanco NERFINISHED
Pablo González Garza NERFINISHED
Plutarco Elías Calles
Salvador Alvarado NERFINISHED
Álvaro Obregón
opposed Victoriano Huerta
opposedBy U.S.-backed Huerta regime initially
partOf Mexican Revolution
recognizedBy Woodrow Wilson administration
surface form: United States government in 1914
reorganizedAs postrevolutionary Mexican federal army
significantEvent Capture of Mexico City in 1914
Constitutionalists’ victory over Huerta regime
Plan of Guadalupe
startTime 1913
supportedBy middle-class reformers in Mexico
regional elites in northern Mexico
usedMilitaryStrategy mobile warfare in northern Mexico
railway-based troop movements
uses Carrancista as demonym for its members

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Mexican Revolution combatant Constitutionalist Army
Pancho Villa politicalAlignment Constitutionalist Army
this entity surface form: anti-Huerta forces
David Alfaro Siqueiros servedIn Constitutionalist Army
this entity surface form: Constitutionalist Army (Mexico)