Mexican Revolution so short a time would not occur with volunteers, and the army resorted to the "leva", forced conscription. The revolutionary forces had no problem with voluntary recruitment. Most Mexican men avoided government conscription at all cost and the ones dragooned into the forces were sent to areas far away from home and were reluctant to fight. Conscripts deserted, mutinied, and attacked and murdered their officers. In April 1914, U.S. opposition to Huerta culminated in the seizure and occupation of the port of Veracruz by U.S. marines and sailors. Initially intended, in part, to prevent a German merchant vessel from delivering
Timeline of the war in Donbass (April–June 2017) rocket launchers and 120 mm mortars to attack Ukrainian marines' redoubts near Pavlopil. Vodiane became the target of small arms, heavy machine guns and grenade launchers. Ukrainian marines at Shyrokyne were harassed by small arms fire from the rebel-held area of Sakhanka. In the surroundings of Donetsk city and Horlivka, Avdiivka came under small arms, heavy machine gun and 82 mm mortar fire. Novoselivka was shelled by 73 mm antitank recoillless guns, while the stronghold of Zaitseve was hit by rocket propelled grenades. In the northern section of the demarcation line, pro-Russian armoured fighting vehicles engaged Ukrainian strongholds around Stanytsia