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) landed in Verkhnyotoretske, where heavy machine gun and sniper fire was also reported. Hostile snipers also harassed Ukrainian troops at Mayorsk (). Rebel forces fired small arms near Troitske. In the region of Mariupol, rebel forces attacked the Ukrainian stronghold of Vodiane with small arms, heavy machine guns, grenade launchers and antitank guided missiles. Ukrainian marines in Hnutove and Shyrokyne received small arms fire. In the northern section of the demarcation line, Ukrainian troops at Stanytsia Luhanska became the target of sniper fire. The ATO HQ reported in the morning that pro-Russian forces had opened fire on 37 occasions on