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May 11, 1864 Died on 01 Jan 0001 (aged 1863)
Mexican military personnel
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About Máximo Castillo
- General Máximo Castillo (1864–1919) was a brigadier general in the Mexican Revolution (ca.
- 1910-1920) who fought for agrarian reform in Northern Mexico.
- Castillo was born poor and worked as an itinerant farm worker for part of his life.
- Upon returning to his native Chihuahua, Castillo joined the Mexican Revolution and became Francisco Madero's personal bodyguard.
- Disillusioned by the slowness of Madero's reforms once he gained power, Castillo quickly joined the armed opposition to the Madero government.
- He was imprisoned in the United States after the government accused him of sabotaging a train.
- In his internment, he wrote a series of memoirs which form the basis from which historians study his life today.
- He died at the age of 55.
