April 1911
Dadarian
The King of Queen's
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- Queen's on the Shore
April 1911
"I Left My Love [in Mexico]"
April began typically for the Mexican civil war, with infighting and moderate incompetence. Zapatista columns marched into Guanajuato, throwing out the surprised Orozquista army which was assembling, and publicly hanged the noted flip-flopping governor. This advance was matched by a formation which deposed the Porifirato from northern Veracruz, uniting the state after a couple months of division. In the north, the Villistas and Magonistas fought in skirmishes on their disputed island, little more than token pot shots at one another without the risk of opening oneself to a counter-thrust."I Left My Love [in Mexico]"
Red: El Porfiriato
Pink: Las Zapatistas
Green: Third Republic of the Yucatan
Yellow: Magonistas
Light Blue: Villistas
Dark Blue: Orozquistas
Green Lines: American Occupation
Pink: Las Zapatistas
Green: Third Republic of the Yucatan
Yellow: Magonistas
Light Blue: Villistas
Dark Blue: Orozquistas
Green Lines: American Occupation
Until Porfirio himself penned a letter begging the American government to intervene. The American government under President Taft had been watching the civil war closely, with vested interests across the Caribbean. The letter, which Taft read to Congress, outlined how there was not only bandits occupying the border (which had been all but abandoned by Villa, who focused on raiding his southern neighbours), but also saw the rise of a powerful socialist pseudo-state in the south. Furthermore, the deprivation of the Yucatan and it's pact with Zapata meant that now the sole adversity of the destabilising reign of the Zapatistas was the Porfiriato.
The Republican Congress was swayed, and authorised the dispatch of a mishmash of cavalry elements to crush the bandits at the border. Thus the Mexican Expeditionary Force was born. Led by a young and dashing lawyer from New York, William Donovan, the men were gathered before launching a surprise attack in the last week of the month. Caudillo Villa, focused on raiding in the south and his tiff with the Magnon brothers, never expected an attack from the north. The MEF swept down from the New Mexico and Arizona Territories in two flying columns, and swept aside the rough militias left by Villa. Concurrently, the Magnon brothers decided that this was their time and launched an attack on the west coast of Sonora, often using home-made rafts or 'liberated' boats to cross the Sea of Cortez.
This gave the Porfiriato the courage and bearing to launch an attack on the International landing in Soto la Marina. Finally bringing their forces together, the tight beachhead of the International was without support, allowing the Porfiriato army to push out the invaders from their shores. A much needed moral and physical victory for the beleaguered state. However, with the American's providing support in the North, perhaps their fortunes have finally changed. Meanwhile caudillo Villa and the remnants of his forces gather, hurting and limited as they are, in Southern Chihuahua and Sonora, a ponder their next maneuver.
