Battle of Ciudad Juárez (1911)

First Battle of Ciudad Juárez
	Part of the Mexican Revolution, Border War
	; Revolutionaries entering Ciudad Juárez.
Date	April 7 – May 10, 1911
Location	Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua31°43′27.001″N 106°28′31.001″W
Result	Maderista victory; rebels capture Ciudad Juárez.
Belligerents
Constitutionalists Maderistas; División del Norte; Orozquistas;	Government Federal Army;
Commanders and leaders
Francisco Madero; Pancho Villa; Pascual Orozco Subordinate; E.L Holmdahl; Castulo Herrera; Captain Linderfeldt	Juan N. Navarro
Strength
2,500	700
	Location within Chihuahua Battle of Ciudad Juárez (1911) (Mexico)

The First Battle of Ciudad Juárez took place in April and May 1911 between federal forces loyal to President Porfirio Díaz and rebel forces of Francisco Madero, during the Mexican Revolution. Pascual Orozco and Pancho Villa commanded Madero's army, which besieged Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua. After two days of fighting the city's garrison surrendered and Orozco and Villa took control of the town. The fall of Ciudad Juárez to Madero, combined with Emiliano Zapata's taking of Cuautla in Morelos, convinced Díaz that he could not hope to defeat the rebels. As a result, he agreed to the Treaty of Ciudad Juárez, resigned and went into exile in France, thus ending the initial stage of the Mexican Revolution.

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