Pascual Orozco Jr.

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Pascual Orozco, 28 January 1882 – 30 August 1915, was a Mexican businessman and revolutionary leader who, after the triumph of the Mexican Revolution, rose up against Francisco I. Madero and recognized the coup d'état led by Victoriano Huerta and the government it imposed.

After Huerta became President of Mexico, Orozco agreed to support him if Huerta agreed to reforms (such as payment of hacienda workers in hard money rather than company store scrip). Huerta agreed, and apointed Orozco Commanding General of all Mexican Federal forces, and lead attacks against the revolutionaries and Pancho Villa. Orozco defeats the Constitutionalists at Ciudad Camargo, Mapula, Santa Rosalia, Zacatecas, and Torreón before Huerta is deposed as President.

After Huerta's fall Orozco announced his refusal to recognize the government of the new president, Francisco S. Carvajal whom he viewed to be similar to Madero. After briefly leading a revolt financed with his own money where he took in Guanajuato where he wins several successive engagements against the Constitutionalists but is forced to retreat because he lacked sufficient manpower to hold the ground he won. He was forced into exile in the United States.

In the USA he met with Huerta in New York to make plans to retake Mexico. On 27 June 1915 the two were arrested in Newman, New Mexico, and charged with conspiracy to violate U.S. neutrality laws. He was placed under arrest in El Paso, Texas, but managed to escape but he was ultimately killed in Horn, Texas on 30 August 1915.

26 members from the Thirteenth U.S. cavalry, 8 local deputies and 13 Texas Rangers pursued Orozco and caught up with him on Van Horn Mountain, eight miles (15 km) south of Lobo, Texas. There was a gunfight, and Orozco was killed.

On 3 September 1915 Orozco's remains were buried in El Paso, Texas, at the decision of his wife in Concordia Cemetery, dressed in a full Mexican general's uniform, with the Mexican flag draping his coffin, in front of three thousand followers and admirers. In 1923, his remains were returned to his home state of Chihuahua.