With this group of his own guerrillas he took the town of Iguala for Madero, as well as Tetela del Rio and Arcelia in mid April, and then Tlalchapa, Ajuchitlán and San Miguel Totolapan by the end of the month.

A later encounter between Niven and Salgadistas, while tense (the rebels "bought" the explorers' weapons) ended amicably with both parties exchanging cries of "Viva Salgado!".

[4] Unsatisfied with Madero's actions as president, Salgado remained in the field in 1912 and led a 3,000 strong rebel army in the southern state of Oaxaca in an agrarian uprising.

[3] Both in Guerrero and Oaxaca Salgado recruited troops from the peasants by promising them rich landowners' land, which was to be divided amongst them after the revolution.

[7] He moved his troops to the northern part of Guerrero, took Iguala again (this time for Zapata), Taxco and, Buenavista de Cuéllar.