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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 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 ...
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.
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 ...
The El Paso Times, January 12, 1916, reported 18 mining men where “ruthlessly murdered” by men loyal to Mexican revolutionary General “Pancho” Villa.
Rodolfo Fierro. General Rodolfo Fierro (1885 – 14 October 1915) [1] was a railway worker, railway superintendent, federal soldier and a major general in the army of Pancho Villa during the Mexican Revolution in the Division del Norte. Fierro and his counterpart and fellow lieutenant, Tomas Urbina, have been cited as the two halves of Pancho ...
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. President ...