Qualla: Third Battle of Torreón https://qualla.com/third-battle-of-torreon en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:11 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_res/siteimages/rsslogo.png Qualla: Third Battle of Torreón https://qualla.com/third-battle-of-torreon Third Battle of Torreón: Introduction https://qualla.com/third-battle-of-torreon/ A farmer named Jesús Salas Barraza lay bleeding on the ground in Torreón, a bullet lodged in his skull. The Villistas who shot him assumed he was dead and moved on. He was not. More than six years later, Barraza would be among the men who ambushed and killed Pancho Villa on a street in Parral. But in December 1916, that reckoning was unimaginable. Villa had just captured Torreón in a bold gambit that swapped one city for another, and the revolution's most unpredictable general was savoring a victory that tasted more bitter than he expected.

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