Identifier: mexicofromcortes01zimm (find matches)
Title: Mexico, from Cortes to Carranza
Year: 1918 (1910s)
Authors: Zimm, Louise Hasbrouck, 1883-
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Publisher: New York, London, D. Appleton and Company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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seemed to open a wayout of the deadlock, was accepted. The A-B-C Con-ference, as it was called, met in May at NiagaraFalls, and consisted of two men chosen by the UnitedStates, three by President Huerta, and the SouthAmerican diplomats. Their debates had no practicalresult, but the whole situation was soon cleared byHuertas resig-nation. Feeling that his usurped posi-tion had become absolutely untenable, the crafty Aztecgeneral quietly left the capital in July, 1914. Some time later he took up his residence with hisfamily on Long Island, JSTew York. At that time NewYork was full of exiled Mexicans, and the existencethere of a junta which was planning to restore Huertawas practically certain. Huerta was closely watchedby the United States Secret Service. He lived on LongJsland till June 24, 1915, when he left for the purpose,he declared, of visiting his daughter in Texas. Butthe authorities did not trust him so near the border,and he was arrested on the charge of organizing a mili- 320
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Cathedeat. of Mexico,Mexico City, CAEKAI^ZA AND VILLA tary expedition to Mexico, and jailed in the militaryprison at Fort Bliss. He did not long survive this finalfailure of his schemes, but died in January, 1916. The Constitutionalist Revolution, meanwhile, madegreat headway, and Carranzas forces, having gainedcontrol of all the north, entered the City of Mexico inAugust, 1914, seventeen months after he had begun hisstruggle. This marked the end of the first period ofthe Revolution; the second, when the various Constitu-tionalist chiefs struggled for supremacy among them-selves, was to last some years longer. Villa quarreledwith Carranza oven before Huerta left; in October,1914, he was at open war, being jealous because in thatmonth Carranza was formally recognized as ProvisionalPresident by the United States and eight of the Repub-lics of South and Central America. The little border town of Columbus, New Mexico,one dark night in March, 1916, was aroused from itsslumbers by a sudden

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