Acapulco Suffers Other Attacks

In April of 1854 the dictator Antonio López de Santa-Anna made designs on the port. He was, at the time, in arms against his government. His commander, Colonel Ignacio Comonfort, previously the customs administrator, from a strategic point in the Fort of San Diego held off the government troops at cannon point.

In January of 1863 an invading French fleet bombed Acapulco for three days on end. The town was left partially destroyed and in flames. The interventionists returned to the port in 1865 and occupied the site, from September 11 of that year until June 19, 1867, the day on which Maximilian was shot by a firing squad in Queretaro.
We come to the Twentieth Century.

In May of 1911, hundreds of Madero’s revolutionaries launched a brutal attack against Acapulco. General Alvaro Obregón revolted against President Venustiano Carranza and made public, in Chilpancingo, a bare 100 kilometers to the north of Acapulco, his “Agua Prieta Plan,” in April of 1920. Acapulco at that time was still a village of low-lying white-washed houses with red tile roofs and unpaved streets, and had no drainage or drinking water. But when Cannon Officer Guerrero, under Carranza’s order, set out for Acapulco, and attacked, the Fort of San Diego responded with ten short cannon blasts, well aimed, and the warship in the harbor fled for its life.