battle, First World War

Second Battle of Torreón

Name: Second Battle of Torreón
Start: 1914-03-21
Location: Mexico

Second Battle of Torreón was a battle fought on 21 March 1914 in what is now Mexico; it lasted 12 days. The recorded result: Revolutionary victory. Recorded strength: 18,000 men, with 34 pieces of artillery against 16,550 men, with 24 cannons.

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Fought21 March 1914lasted 12 days

WhereMexico25.533N, 103.433W

OutcomeRevolutionary victory

BelligerentsConstitutionalists; División del NorteagainstGovernment; Federal Army

Casualties and losses1,500and8,000

Record

Date	21 March 1914 to 2 April 1914
Place	Mexico 25.533N, 103.433W
Kind	Battle, First World War
Strength	18,000 men, with 34 pieces of artillery	16,550 men, with 24 cannons
Casualties and losses	1,500	8,000
Commanders	Pancho Villa Felipe Ángeles	José Refugio Velasco Benjamín Argumedo

The recorded site, with the nearest other engagements in the atlas. Present-day coastlines, rivers and borders; towns from Natural Earth.

Nearest engagements

First Battle of Torreón 1913, same recorded site
Third Battle of Torreón 1916, same recorded site
Battle of Parral (1865) 1865, 226 km NW
Battle of the Hill of the Capulin 1927, 233 km W
Battle of Buena Vista 1847, 241 km E

Elsewhere in 1914

First Battle of the Marne France
Battle of Tannenberg Poland
Battle of Liège Belgium
Battle of the Falkland Islands Argentina
Battle of Sarikamish Turkey

Second Battle of Torreón is one of 2,997 engagements of the 20th century in the atlas and one of 160 in present-day Mexico.

Sources

Identity, coordinates, dates and the war from Wikidata Q5494767, released under CC0. Result, belligerents, commanders, strength and casualties from the infobox of the English Wikipedia article Second Battle of Torreón, revision 1370736680, read 2026-11-14, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0; the article's text is not reproduced here. Present-day country and state from Natural Earth. Dates before 1582 follow the Julian calendar as recorded.