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  2. Mexico in World War I - Wikipedia

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    Mexico [1] [2] was a neutral country in World War I, which lasted from 1914 to 1918.The war broke out in Europe in August 1914 as the Mexican Revolution was in the midst of full-scale civil war between factions that had helped oust General Victoriano Huerta from the presidency earlier that year.

  3. Tampico Affair - Wikipedia

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    Anti-American sentiment in Mexico from the Tampico incident was the chief reason that the Mexican government remained neutral in World War I. [20] Mexico refused to participate with the US military excursion in Europe and granted full guarantees to German companies for keeping their operations open, specifically in Mexico City. [21]

  4. Mexican Border War - Wikipedia

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    Yaqui prisoners and 10th Cavalry troops on 9 January 1918, after the skirmish in Bear Valley, Arizona United States Army Intelligence stationed at Fort Huachuca, Arizona, detected a German military presence in Sonora and ordered troops to begin surveillance operations to prepare for war with Mexico. Mexican railways, train stations, and other ...

  5. List of wars involving Mexico - Wikipedia

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    Mexico: United States: Status quo ante bellum. Americans leave the city after hearing war did not break out; Mier Expedition (1842–1843) Mexico Texas: Victory. Texan soldiers were forced to surrender; Texan raids on New Mexico (1843) Mexico Texas: Victory. Mexico retains control over New Mexico; Mexican–American War (1846–1848) Mexico ...

  6. Battle of Veracruz (1914) - Wikipedia

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    US President Woodrow Wilson considered another military invasion of Veracruz and Tampico in 1917–1918, [36] [37] so as to take control of Tehuantepec Isthmus and Tampico oil fields, [37] [38] but this time the new Mexican President Venustiano Carranza gave the order to destroy the oil fields in case the Marines tried to land there. [39]

  7. Pancho Villa Expedition - Wikipedia

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    The Pancho Villa Expedition—now known officially in the United States as the Mexican Expedition, [6] but originally referred to as the "Punitive Expedition, US Army" [1] —was a military operation conducted by the United States Army against the paramilitary forces of Mexican revolutionary Francisco "Pancho" Villa from March 14, 1916, to February 7, 1917, during the Mexican Revolution of ...

  8. Zimmermann telegram - Wikipedia

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    Even if Mexico's military forces had been completely united and loyal to a single government, no serious scenario existed under which it could have invaded and won a war against the United States. Indeed, much of Mexico's military hardware of 1917 reflected only modest upgrades since the Mexican-American War 70 years before, which the U.S. had won.

  9. Military history of Mexico - Wikipedia

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    The Roman Catholic Church and the military weathered independence better. Military men dominated Mexico's nineteenth-century history, most particularly General Antonio López de Santa Anna, under whom the Mexican military were defeated by Texas insurgents for independence in 1836 and then the U.S. invasion of Mexico (1846–48). With the ...