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George Puflea
George Puflea Crăciun was an early aviator. Born in modern-day Romania, he flew in the First Balkan War, in the Mexican Revolution, in the First World War and in early American and Mexican civil aviation. He was also known under his name in Spanish, Jorge Puflea. Biography Puflea was born in 1883 in Mediaș, in the Austro-Hungarian Nagy-Küküllő County (in present-day Romania). He became an aviator in France, and took part in the First Balkan War. With he traveled to New York City, United States, where he obtained the aviator license number 256 from the Aero Club of America in 1913 at the Moisant Aviation School in Long Island, New York, where he also worked as chief pilot and instructor. In 1914 he traveled to Mexico invited by Alberto Salinas Carranza, and joined the Constitutionalist Army, fighting in the Puebla campaign and in the , where he carried out observation and bombarding missions, and propaganda distribution activities over enemy troops. He also f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jorge Puflea Piloto
Jorge is a Spanish and Portuguese given name. It is derived from the Greek name Γεώργιος (''Georgios'') via Latin ''Georgius''; the former is derived from (''georgos''), meaning "farmer" or "earth-worker". The Latin form ''Georgius'' had been rarely given in Western Christendom since at least the 6th century. The popularity of the name however develops from around the 12th century, in Occitan in the form '' Jordi'', and it becomes popular at European courts after the publication of the '' Golden Legend'' in the 1260s. The West Iberian form ''Jorge'' is on record as the name of Jorge de Lencastre, Duke of Coimbra (1481–1550). List of people with the given name Jorge * Jorge (footballer, born 1946), Brazilian footballer * Jorge (Brazilian singer), Brazilian musician and singer, Jorge & Mateus * Jorge (Romanian singer), real name George Papagheorghe, Romanian singer, actor, TV host * Jorge Betancourt, Cuban diver * Jorge Campos, Mexican football player * Jor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Constitutionalist Army
The Constitutional Army ( es, Ejército constitucionalista; also known as the Constitutionalist Army) was the army that fought against the Federal Army, and later, against the Villistas and Zapatistas during the Mexican Revolution. It was formed in March 1913 by Venustiano Carranza, so-called "First-Chief" of the army, as a response to the murder of President Francisco I. Madero and Vice President José María Pino Suárez by Victoriano Huerta during ''La Decena Trágica'' (Ten Tragic Days) of 1913, and the resulting usurpation of presidential power by Huerta. Carranza had a few military forces on which he could rely for loyalty. He had the theoretical support of Pancho Villa and Emiliano Zapata, but they soon turned against the Constitutionalists after Huerta's defeat in 1914. In July 1913, Carranza divided the country into seven areas for military operations. Each area was, at least in theory, the responsibility of a general commanding an Army corps. These corps were: Northea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
