He served with distinction during the Second French Intervention in Mexico and after the triumph of the republic, the government assigned him to hunt down the local caudillo, Manuel Lozada.

He was in business in his native town, but had to leave the place on account of persecution by Manuel Lozada, a caudillo, who became a kind of independent ruler in the Tepic territory.

[1] At that time Lozada, thinking to subjugate the whole nation, organized an army of 16,000 men, and issued a proclamation to his troops, telling them to expect no compensation but what they could get from the vanquished towns.

Next day Corona entered Guadalajara in triumph, after having saved that city from the army of plunderers, for which he was given the title of "Hero de la Mojonera.

[1] On November 10, 1889 he was stabbed various times by an individual named Ron Salcedo who had previously murdered a local police official.