As there was no agreement, General Tiburcio Carías and the Dr. Juan Ángel Arias, together with 15 Cariístas and 18 Aristas from the Chamber of Deputies, supported Dr. Miguel Paz Barahona to be president of the nationcountry in the National Congress of Honduras.

His departure was interpreted as a signal to begin a war, and during the night, others left the capital to join the ranks of the newly formed "Revolution".

On February 1, important social, political and executive Hondurans, including businessman Don Santos Soto Rosales, the wealthiest Honduran; engineer Héctor Medina Planas; attorney José María Matute; former Tegucigalpa Governor Raúl Toledo López; F. Alfredo Medrano, Guillermo Moncada, former Minister of War Dionisio Gutiérrez, left for El Salvador, along with other officers such as General Jacobo Galindo, General Joaquín Medina Planas, General Ramón Alvarado Mendieta, and Colonel Ricardo Lardizábal.

A contingent of revolutionary troops, under the command of General J. Innocente Triminio Osorio, had left Tegucigalpa on January 30 and gathered a group of 300followers of the Barrio Viera.

At the time the country experienced an economic boom that led many Chinese, European (Spaniards, French, Italian, Jewish), and Arab immigrants to arrive to Honduras.

On February 5, the Minister of the Interior and Justice, Dr. José Ángel Zúñiga Huete, asked businessmen, bankers and other Honduran and foreign merchants for the sum of US$200,000 in order to crush the proclaimed revolution and lift the country.

On February 7, the city of Gracias fell to rebel forces commanded by Generals Vicente Tosta Carrasco and Gregorio Ferrera, who then continued to Santa Rosa de Copán.

The battle was fought on February 9 outside Jacaleapa, near the Nicaraguan border, between the revolutionary forces commanded by Generals José Innocente Triminio and Camilo R. Reina Rivera, Colonels Pedro Francisco Triminio, Constantino S. Ramos, Manuel Valladares Núñez, Ricardo Lozano, and Armando B. Reina; and the government forces, under the command of Generals Sánchez, Teófilo Cárcamo, Cámbar, Fonseca and Mejía.

Honduran government espionage detects that in the vicinity of the town of Lamaní, there is a rebel barracks with 2,000 men ready to take Tegucigalpa under the command of General Bertrand Anduray.

General Leonardo Nuila has recovered the square of the city of La Paz, after a short shootout against the revolutionary forces under the command of Colonel Moisés Nazar, who the next day, in a counterattack February 20.

General Gregorio Ferrera attacked in the early hours and by surprise the Plaza of the colonial city and former capital of Comayagua, the government commander has ordered the counteroffensive.

On February 23, after two days and one night of terrible fighting, Comayagua has fallen into the power of the revolutionary army headed by General Gregorio Ferrera, the informative part also assures that the Commander and Dr. José María Ochoa Velásquez, former vice president of the nation and Colonel Salomón Sorto Z., who were defending the town hall and the plaza, have escaped unharmed and fled to Tegucigalpa, Colonel José María Navas Gardela, died in combat.

[4] 27 February, the governmental General Carlos Lagos, commanding 6,000 men, plans the attack on the 2,000 rebels commanded by General Vicente Tosta Carrasco -a military academy- who devised the following strategy: He left in "Calpules" around 60 men and flags with the In order to deceive the enemy, meanwhile he with the bulk of his forces moved by forced march to the heights where he could dominate the site, and attack the "gutierrista" troops in an enveloping movement, in effect, at 8:00 am the forces Dictatorials attacked the diminished revolutionary positions located in “Calpules” (Agua Prieta), assaulting and taking them without any apparent difficulty.

At that time, General Tosta ordered the attack on his army, surprising the officers and enemy troops, the fight spread through "Trinchera" (Choloma) where Colonel "Chicho" Matute lost his life, in "Cerro Will", " Cofradía ”,“ Palmar ”and“ Choloma ”, are fought hard for three days (February 27, 28 and 29), the dictatorial Army gradually loses ground, until, realizing that it had lost the battle and seeing itself in danger of being completely annihilated, he began to retreat to the northwest, leaving San Pedro Sula at the mercy of the Revolution, the defeated officers were: Carlos Lagos, Salvador Cisneros, Luis Mejía Moreno, Gonzalo Navarro and José María Escoto in whom the dictator Rafael López Gutiérrez had a lot of faith .

In the city of La Ceiba there is another meeting between the government and revolutionary forces, all due to the fact that the banana transnational United Fruit Company gave its support to Doctor and General Tiburcio Carias Andino.

The United States breaks diplomatic relations with Honduras and sends the USS Denver6 to the shores of the Honduran Caribbean, to safeguard its own interests.

The representatives of the diplomatic corps of the countries with which Honduras has a relationship, order their compatriots to close their offices and protect themselves from an imminent attack on the Honduran capital.

Ferrera's ultimatum was taken seriously by the citizens of the Honduran capital who did not sleep through the night waiting for the aforementioned attack, although there was none, the rebels did prepare to the teeth to do it in a more tactical way.

General Gregorio Ferrera leaves part of his constitutional revolutionary army under the orders of the commanders of the revolution in the center and goes south to take Choluteca, Ferrera would not arrive in the city until 03:00 in the morning at the head of his army that he had no obstacles in taking the Cholutecan plaza, since the officer in charge of that place, General Toribio Ramos, had left with his 500 men and other supplies, leaving the city abandoned.

To request a total ceasefire, a negotiating body has been formed made up of diplomats accredited in the country, being the following: Franklin E. Morales, Minister Plenipotentiary and Special Envoy of the United States of America; Mr. G. Lyall, Chargé d'Affaires of England; Dr. José María Bonilla, Chargé d'Affaires of Guatemala; Dr. Pablo Campos Ortíz, Head of the Mexican Legation; Mr. Anselmo Rivas G., Minister Plenipotentiary and Envoy Extraordinary of Nicaragua and Dr. Bernardino Larios H., Chargé d'Affaires of El Salvador, the persons who will listen to the full voice of the representatives of the parties in conflict.

On April 23, 1924, the deliberative parties were present on the USS “Milwaukee” cruiser commanded by Admiral Dayton, thus beginning negotiations between the revolutionaries and the government.

On April 28, the capital is taken by a brutal and numerous offensive of the revolution, this is how one of the best military tacticians in Honduras takes the city: At 9:30 p.m. the troops of the Revolution, under the immediate command of General Vicente Tosta Carrasco, they have crossed the river in front of the Manuel Bonilla National Theater, La Concordia Park and the municipal Pantheon, continuing down the “El Berrinche” and in an overwhelming avalanche towards the center of the city.

Other rebel columns penetrate the surroundings of the Pantheon, under a shower of bullets launched by machine guns from the hill “El Sipile”.

General Martínez Fúnez's troops enter through the site of “Guanacaste” and through the slopes of the “Juan A. Laínez” hill, reaching the “Isla” sector and on the other side over the San Francisco Barracks.

Meanwhile, a revolutionary column under the command of Colonel Carlos B. González and other leaders, attack and take the Veterans Barracks, and march on the Presidential Palace.

On April 28 and after many talks and broken agreements, the Peace Conference reaches a key moment, a ceasefire is agreed and at around 12:30 p.m. General Vicente Tosta Carrasco is appointed as Provisional President, the same On April 30 at 10:00 a.m., he took an oath of promise to the Law before the Mayor of Tegucigalpa, then he went to the Honduran Presidential House where, as of May 1, he takes office and summons the delegations Central American countries to report the facts.