Battle of Tacámbaro

When

11 Apr 1865

Kind

Battle

Coordinates

19.24° N, 101.46° W

Description

1865 battle

The Battle of Tacámbaro was a battle of the French Intervention in Mexico which took place on 11 April 1865 in the state of Michoacán in western Mexico. The battle, named after the town in which it was fought, pitted 300 members of the Belgian Legion supporting the Mexican Empire against approximately 3,000 Mexican republicans.

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• Wikidata: battles and siegesWikidata contributorsCreative Commons CC0 1.0 (public domain dedication)Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (French), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Mexique : victoire juariste à la bataille de Tacámbaro au Mexique”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (Spanish), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “en el marco de la Segunda Intervención Francesa en México, el general Nicolás Régules derrota a las tropas de la legión belga-francesa en la Batalla de…”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page

• Franco-Mexican16 Apr 1862 · Interstate war · Deaths 20,000