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Francisco " Pancho " Villa (UK: / ˈpæntʃoʊ ˈviːə / PAN-choh VEE-ə, [3][4] US: / ˈpɑːntʃoʊ ˈviː (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. He was a key figure in ...
Francisco Villaruel Guilledo (August 1, 1901 – July 14, 1925), more commonly known as Pancho Villa, was a Filipino professional boxer.Villa, who stood only 5 feet and 1 inch (154 cm) tall and never weighed more than 114 pounds (51 kg), despite the racial discrimination of that time, rose from obscurity to become the first Asian to win the World Flyweight Championship in 1923, earning the ...
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 Battle of Columbus (Burning of Columbus or the Columbus Raid), March 9, 1916, began as a raid conducted by remnants of Pancho Villa 's Division of the North on the small United States border town of Columbus, New Mexico, located 3 miles (4.8 km) north of the border with Mexico. The raid escalated into a full-scale battle between Villistas ...
Occupation. Handyman. Wenceslao Moguel Herrera (1 November 1896 [1] – 29 July 1976), known in the press as El Fusilado (Spanish: " The Shot One " [a]), was a Mexican soldier under Pancho Villa who was captured on 18 March 1915 during the Mexican Revolution, and survived execution by firing squad. [2][3][4] He was sentenced to death without a ...
Thanksgiving day 1917 news: Francisco "Pancho" Villa and his men had robbed a Mexican central Line train of $70,000, some merchandise and some horses.
The El Paso Times, January 12, 1916, reported 18 mining men where “ruthlessly murdered” by men loyal to Mexican revolutionary General “Pancho” Villa.
The Third Battle of Ciudad Juarez, or simply the Battle of Juarez, was the final major battle involving the rebels of Francisco "Pancho" Villa. It began on June 15, 1919, when Villa attempted to capture the border city of Ciudad Juarez from the Mexican Army. During the engagement the Villistas provoked an intervention by the United States Army ...