Battle of la Loma
1865 conflict
| Battle of la Loma | |||||||
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| Part of the Second French intervention in Mexico | |||||||
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| Belligerents | |||||||
 Mexican Republicans |
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| Commanders and leaders | |||||||
| Porfirio Díaz |  Alfred Van der Smissen | ||||||
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Second French intervention in Mexico
(1861–1867)
(1861–1867)
1862
- Fortín
- Las Cumbres
- Atlixco
- Puebla
- Barranca Seca
- Cerro del Borrego
1863
- Jonuta
- Siege of Puebla
- San Pablo del Monte
- Tampico
- 2nd Atlixco
- Camarón
- Mexico City
- Chiapa de Corzo
- Morelia
- Guanajuato
1864
- Guadalajara
- El Jahuactal
- San Juan Bautista
- Mazatlán
- Acapulco
- Nanahuatipam
- Majoma
- Monterrey
- Matamoros
- Totoapan
- Colima
- Jiquilpan
- San Pedro
1865
- Cuauhtémoc
- El Rosario
- Tacámbaro
- Tula
- Soyaltepec
- La Loma
- Parral
- Chihuahua
- Álamos
- Ixmiquilpan
1866
- Bagdad
- Santa Isabel
- Chihuahua
- Siege of Jonuta
- Santa Gertrudis
- Miahuatlán
- Juchitán
- La Carbonera
- Guayabo
1867
- Guadalajara
- Villa de Álvarez
- San Jacinto
- Monterrey
- 3rd Puebla
- Lomas de San Lorenzo
- Siege of Querétaro
- Mexico City
The Batalle of la Loma was a minor engagement of the Second French intervention in Mexico which took place on 16 July 1865 in the vicinity of Hacienda de la Loma in the current municipality of Tacámbaro, Michoacán. The battle occurred members of the Mexican Republican army, led by General Porfirio Díaz, and the Belgian Legion, supporting French and Mexican Imperial troops, led by Lieutenant Colonel Alfred Van der Smissen. Despite the Belgian victory, the Mexican mission was highly expensive for Belgium because just half of 1,500 soldiers sent to Mexico returned to Europe at the end of the war.
