On this day, 11 May 1910, revolutionary Emiliano Zapata’s peasant army began the Battle of Cuautla during the Mexican Revolution. Despite suffering hundreds of losses, the Zapatistas took the town 8 days later, and the defeat convinced the dictator Porfirio Díaz to step down.
Pictured: some of Zapata’s troops https://www.facebook.com/workingclasshistory/photos/a.296224173896073/1122341611284321/?type=3
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