Enrique gorostieta velarde biography

Enrique Gorostieta Velarde was a Mexican soldier best known for his leadership as a general during the Cristero War. Enrique Gorostieta.
Enrique Gorostieta Velarde was a Mexican soldier best known for his leadership as a general during the Cristero War.
Enrique Gororstieta Velarde By his wife and children.

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Part One

The ballad of General Gorostieta
The real story, truly told.
Of a valiant man who scaled honor's heights
In defense of his holy religion. (Repeat)

This youth began his career
As a student in the Military College.
There he shone, for the first time
Earning the bars of a Federal Lieutenant. (Repeat)

He commanded an artillery unit,
Going to Morelos, he fought with honor.
Risking all with bravery and guts,
He rose from Lieutenant to Captain. (Repeat)

Battling valiantly in skirmishes in Rellano,
In Machimba, Casas Grandes y Torreón.
And this now famous Mexican warrior
Drew admiration from his superiors.

Later on, he saw action in Valladares
Santa Engracia y La Candela - all with honor.
Conquering with great glory and praise
And by this was decorated a Major.

Being still a youth, his moustache
Just peeking out on his boyish lip.
And for the triumphs earned in Tuxpan
He gained a Colonel's stars.

Under the command of the great Rubio Navarrete
He beat back the invader's forces.
And this lad, risking life and limb
Broke through the American's lin

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Enrique Gorostieta

Mexican general (1890–1929)

In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Gorostieta and the second or maternal family name is Velarde.

Enrique Gorostieta Velarde (Monterrey, 1889 – Atotonilco el Alto, June 2, 1929) was a Mexican soldier best known for his leadership as a general during the Cristero War.

Life

Born in Monterrey into a prominent Mexican family of Basque descent, Enrique Gorostieta Velarde had a typically secular education. His early life is not well documented, but it is known that his father, an attorney and businessman, had personal ties with Victoriano Huerta, and that Enrique was encouraged by his mother to take up a military career, and he enrolled at the Heroic Military College of Chapultepec in 1906. Upon graduation in May 1911, the same month Porfirio Díaz stepped down from the Presidency, Gorostieta — as a protege of Victoriano Huerta — served on campaigns against Emiliano Zapata in September 1911 and against Pascual Orozco in April–May 1912.^[1] During Huerta's short dictatorship of 1913-

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Enrique Gorostieta (1889-2 June 1929) was a Mexican general during the Mexican Revolution and later the commander-in-chief of the Cristeros during the Cristero War at the very end of the Wild West era, and the Roaring Twenties.

Biography[]

Enrique Gorostieta Velarde was born in Monterrey, Mexico in 1889, and he received a secular education before serving under Victoriano Huerta during several victories over Emiliano Zapata during the Mexican Revolution. After the war, he became a soap manufacturer, but he longed for a return to his military adventures. In 1927, he was chosen by Miguel Gomez Loza as commander of the Cristeros, a Catholic rebel alliance which sought to end President Plutarco Elias Calles' anti-clerical laws. Gorostieta himself was an atheist who cared little for the Cristero cause, but he was motivated to fight by his wife's own devout Catholicism, by his support for religious freedom, and by the payment which the Cristeros promised him. He used his gift for military strategy to ensure that he was respected as the Cristeros' commander-in-chief, uniting