The Mesa Verde train ambush occurred in 1913 during the Mexican Revolution. A force of Rebeldes under Ricardo Santerna ambushed a Mexican Army train as it left the town of Mesa Verde following their massacre of hundreds of imprisoned insurrectionists and revolutionary sympathizers. The tyrannical Governor of Mesa Verde, Don Jaime, had climbed aboard the train with the hope of fleeing before Pancho Villa and Emiliano Zapata's rebel armies arrived, but he was cornered by the rebels John H. Mallory and Juan Miranda, and Miranda shot him dead in the animal boxcar, avenging the deaths of his family members at the San Ysidro Cave. Miranda was hailed as a "great, grand, glorious hero of the revolution" by the Rebeldes, and even Pancho Villa heard of Miranda's exploits and expressed interest in meeting him.
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