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.
This is a short history of the revolution: https://libcom.org/history/mexican-revolution
Pictured: Zapatista troops https://www.facebook.com/workingclasshistory/photos/a.296224173896073/1423579944493818/?type=3