 Other key figures were General Pedro Galván and Florentino Cuervo, who captured Ameca.Colonel Félix Vélez Galván took up arms in Sayula, Jalisco on 12 February.On 20 May 1876 in Icamole, Nuevo León, General Carlos Fuero, loyal to the government of Lerdo de Tejada, inflicted a heavy defeat on Díaz's rebels, who were forced to withdraw to the south of the Republic.