Battle of Cerro del Borrego
Battle of Cerro del Borrego | |||||||
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Part of the Second French intervention in Mexico | |||||||
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Belligerents | |||||||
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Commanders and leaders | |||||||
Jesús Ortega | Unknown |
- v
- t
- e
(1861–1867)
- Fortín
- Las Cumbres
- Atlixco
- Puebla
- Barranca Seca
- Cerro del Borrego
1863
- Jonuta
- Siege of Puebla
- San Pablo del Monte
- Tampico
- 2nd Atlixco
- Camarón
- Mexico City
- Chiapa de Corzo
- Morelia
- Guanajuato
1864
- Guadalajara
- El Jahuactal
- San Juan Bautista
- Mazatlán
- Acapulco
- Nanahuatipam
- Majoma
- Monterrey
- Matamoros
- Totoapan
- Colima
- Jiquilpan
- San Pedro
1865
1866
- Bagdad
- Santa Isabel
- Chihuahua
- Siege of Jonuta
- Santa Gertrudis
- Miahuatlán
- Juchitán
- La Carbonera
- Guayabo
1867
- Guadalajara
- Villa de Álvarez
- San Jacinto
- Monterrey
- 3rd Puebla
- Lomas de San Lorenzo
- Siege of Querétaro
- Mexico City
The Battle of Cerro del Borrego took place on 13 June 1862 in the vicinity of the current municipality of Orizaba in the state of Veracruz, Mexico. It was fought between the Mexican republican army under General Jesús Gonzalez Ortega and troops of the Second Mexican Empire during the Second French intervention in Mexico.[1]
Before General González Ortega's troops incorporation to General Zaragoza's troops in San Andrés Chalchicomula, he received orders to pass through Perote in order to reach the northern part of Orizaba heading to La Perla and then occupy Cerro del Borrego, near to Orizaba. During the night of June 14, 1862, the Zacatecas division was discovered and moved away from its position by French troops forcing it to retreat.
References
- ^ Vicente Riva Palacio (1940). México a través de los siglos. G.S.López.
18°51′58″N 97°07′58″W / 18.8661°N 97.1328°W / 18.8661; -97.1328