Tomás Urbina | |
Birth Name: | Tomás Urbina Reyes |
Birth Date: | 1877 |
Birth Place: | Congregación de Nieves, Ocampo Municipality, Durango |
Death Place: | Congregación de Nieves, Ocampo Municipality, Durango |
Serviceyears: | 1910-1915 |
Rank: | General |
Unit: | División del Norte |
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Tomás Urbina Reyes (c. 1877 - 1915) was a general during the Mexican Revolution who allied with Pancho Villa and Emiliano Zapata.[1]
Lieutenant Tomas Urbina and his counterpart and fellow General Rodolfo Fierro, have been cited as the two halves of Pancho Villa, Fierro representing his more violent side.[2]
Urbina was executed by General Fierro under the accusation that he betrayed Pancho Villa during the Battle of El Ébano (Spanish:), a 72-day siege of the town of El Ébano in the state of San Luis Potosí, where Urbina finally surrendered his forces to the Constitutionalist faction, and allegedly received a sum of money for his surrender.
In the filmVilla Rides (1968), Urbina was portrayed by Robert Viharo.
In (1973), Urbina was portrayed by Eduard López Rojas.
Urbina is a major character in the novel, The Friends of Pancho Villa (1996), by James Carlos Blake.