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460:, as they feared that their troops would go over to constitutionalism, but he was soon called to operate in the Torreón area; Argumedo demonstrated authority; the best example was his defense of Torreón, on July 13, 1913, where with a small group of men he defeated almost all the rebel leaders of La Laguna. However, at the beginning of 1914, the constitutionalists, under the command of Pancho Villa,
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him command of his own rural corps. At the beginning of 1912, several groups of agricultural workers revealed themselves under the orders of
Argumedo, Pablo Lavín and José de Jesús Campos under the forces of Pascual Orozco. They had no clear objective, but their ranks were swelled by rising unemployment in the region. In mid-February, Argumedo besieged
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516:'s supply lines for his campaign in the Bajío, in which he was not successful either and in June, Pachuca was being threatened to be under siege. However, there was information that on the same days he was with 3000 men defending
388:, on March 15, and the unsuccessful attack on Pedriceña, together with Emilio P. Campa . A month later, Argumedo finally took Pedriceña, Durango, with 3,000 men; later Torreón threatened. At the end of May,
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