The Battle of Acajete was fought at
Acajete, Veracruz on 3 May 1839 between insurgents under the joint command of
José de Urrea and
José Antonio Mexía and 1,600 Centrists under the command of General
Gabriel Valencia. The insurgents lost, Mexia was captured and executed, and Urrea fled to Tampico.
Sources
Jaques, Tony, ed. (2007), Dictionary of Battles and Sieges: A Guide to 8,500 Battles from Antiquity through the Twenty-first Century (3 volumes ed.), Greenwood Publishing Group, p. 5,
ISBN978-0-313-33536-5,
LCCN2006015366,
OCLC68786744,
OL10420610M
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