Aleksandra Miesak Rohde
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Pancho Villa attacked Columbus, New Mexico in March of 1916. With several thousand men, he plundered the tiny desert town, set fire to buildings and k
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illed sixteen Americans. It was an odd turn of events. Just two years earlier he had been celebrated as a hero and loyal ally of the United States. But that was then. After the brazen Columbus attack, President Woodrow Wilson deployed a punitive expedition led by General John J. Pershing into Mexico to capture Villa. The Mexican Punitive Expedition is chronicled in the second half of this book. But our historical narrative opens with the backstory of how one of America’s closest friends turned into its fiercest foe.
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