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Pancho Villa. New York: Chelsea House 1991. O'Malley, Irene V., The Myth of the Revolution: Hero Cults and the Institutionalization of the Mexican State, 1920–1940. New York: Greenwood Press 1986. Orellana, Margarita de, Filming Pancho Villa: How Hollywood Shaped the Mexican Revolution: North American Cinema and Mexico, 1911–1917. New York ...
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).
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.
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.
Pancho Villa: El Centauro del Norte (Pancho Villa: The Centaur of the North) is a Mexican television biographical series produced by BTF Media for Star+. The series dates to the life and death of Mexican revolutionary Francisco "Pancho" Villa and the Mexican Revolution , [ 2 ] and was released on June 19, 2023, with 10 episodes.
Felix A. Sommerfeld (May 28, 1879 – ?) was a German secret service agent in Mexico and the United States between 1908 and 1919. He was chief of the Mexican secret service under President Francisco I. Madero, worked as a diplomat and arms buyer for Venustiano Carranza and Francisco "Pancho" Villa, and ran the Mexican portion of Germany's war strategy in North America between 1914 and 1917.
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.
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