The Battle of Tepic was an engagement during the Mexican Revolution where two former allies, Emil Lewis Holmdahl and MartÃÂn Espinosa, turned enemies, fought for control over the provincial capital of Tepic.
Holmdahl and seven officers were brought before Espinosa, who asked them to join his junta. They refused and then fled to the mountains, from where they joined 280 Cora Indians loyal to Madero. Holmdahl, the seven officers, and the Indians attacked Tepic, armed with bows and arrows and an old brass cannon.
Espinosa and his forces numbered between 2,000 and 5,000 men and were armed with guns. Holmdahl had presumed that Espinosa's men would defect and join their cause. They didn't and the battle erupted into a brutal fight on the city streets. Holmdahl and his men were outnumbered and began to lose ground, while Holmdahl was wounded by a shell that burst near him, killing the man next to him. After 36 hours of fighting, Holmdahl's forces were defeated with two thirds of their men dead including all seven officers.
Holmdahl would disband his faction and join Madero's cause and would distinguish himself during the revolution. Espinosa on the other hand would later lose Tepic, be exiled by Victoriano Huerta, and later be assassinated.