Battle delivered the April 11th 1865, during the forwarding of Mexico.

The April 3rd 1865, three hundred men of the Belgian Legion, troop made up of Belgian volunteers eager to be useful in the army of the emperor Maximilien, whose wife, Charlotte of Belgium are the girl of the king Léopold Ier of Belgium, occupy the town of Tacambaro, in the state of the Michoacan. Under the orders of the Major Tydgat, they are cut off in the city, and in particular in the church which they transform into fortified town. April 11th, they are attacked by the troops of the Général juarist Nicolàs Régules, which has a crushing numerical superiority. Encircled of all share, the Belgians resist hopelessly in waiting of reinforcements which will not arrive, and are finally constrained to capitulate. Seriously wounded at the time of the engagements, major Tydgat will succumb shortly after. Its assistant, the Captain Chazal, is also killed during the battle.

The news of the disaster is accommodated with consternation in Belgium, where volunteer sending for the Mexico had caused criticisms on behalf of the press. The Belgian legion, ordered by its chief the lieutenant-colonel Van der Smissen, will take its revenge with the battle of Loma the July 6th 1865; however the forwarding of Mexico will be to him very expensive: only half of its 1500 men will return to the country at the end of the hostilities.

Sources

• Jacqueline Hons, the Belgian legion in Mexico , re-examined Friendly, number November 26th, th and th 1981.