Pierre Bordagary

General Pierre Bordagary.

General Pierre Bordagary was second-in-command under General Jacques Beauchamp of the French Expeditionary Force during the Hundred Day War. Bordagary accompanied the F.E.F. as it set out from Tampico in mid-July 1914 on its march through the Mexican state of Durango to Mexico City. On 28 August Mexican General Emiliano Calles lured the F.E.F. into a trap in the Mexico City neighborhood of Chapultepec, surrounding it with barbed wire and subjecting it to machine gun and airmobile attacks. General Beauchamp made three concerted attempts to break out of the trap, all unsuccessful. Beauchamp himself died during the third breakout attempt, and Bordagary succeeded to command of the F.E.F. Bordagary made no further attempts to escape the Mexican trap, and on the morning of 29 August he surrendered to Calles.