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Francisco "Pancho" Villa (UK: / ˈ p æ n tʃ oʊ ˈ v iː ə / PAN-choh VEE-ə, [3] [4] US: / ˈ p ɑː n tʃ oʊ ˈ v iː (j) ə / PAHN-choh VEE-(y)ə, [3] [5] Spanish: [ˈpantʃo ˈβiʎa]; born José Doroteo Arango Arámbula; 5 June 1878 – 20 July 1923) was a Mexican revolutionary and prominent figure in the Mexican Revolution.
Let's Go with Pancho Villa (Spanish: Vámonos con Pancho Villa) is a Mexican motion picture directed by Fernando de Fuentes in 1936, the last of the director's Revolution Trilogy, besides El prisionero trece and El compadre Mendoza.
Villa appeared as himself in the films Life of Villa (1912), [3] Barbarous Mexico (1913), [4] With General Pancho Villa in Mexico (1913), The Life of General Villa (1914) [5] and Following the Flag in Mexico (1916).
Mexico’s president on Tuesday praised Mexican revolutionary Francisco “Pancho” Villa for his 1916 attack on Columbus, New Mexico, a raid that killed 18 Americans, mostly civilians.
María Quinteras de Meras was a Mexican revolutionary and soldadera who rose to the rank of colonel. She dressed as a man and fought in ten battles between 1910 and 1913. Her fighting was so fierce she was thought to have supernatural pow
In November 1915, Pancho Villa was engaged in the major Battle of Agua Prieta, a battle he ultimately lost. Short on men and supplies, Villa sent a detachment to Nogales, Sonora, and the town was occupied without opposition. Shortly thereafter, a series of raids were launched across the international border into Arizona.
The Pancho Villa Expedition—now known officially in the United States as the Mexican Expedition, [6] but originally referred to as the "Punitive Expedition, U.S. 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 ...
The Village of Columbus and Camp Furlong is a National Historic Landmark District commemorating the 1916 raid by Pancho Villa on the town of Columbus, New Mexico, and the American military response to that raid, the "Punitive Expedition" led by General John J. Pershing.