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Article: Compelling Story of Pershing and Pancho Villa
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- September 1, 2006
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Compelling Story of Pershing and Pancho Villa The General & The Jaguar: Pershing's Hunt for Pancho Villa: A True Story of Revolution & Revenge. Eileen Welsoinc. Little, Brown and Company. 404 pages; photographs; maps; index; $25.95.
At 3 A.M. on March 9, 1916, Pancho Villa and a 500-man remnant of his División del Norte, many of them peasants who had been forcibly conscripted through violence, crossed into U.S. territory and attacked the small town of Columbus, N.M., three miles north of the border. They killed 10 civilians and eight 13th Cavalry troopers who were stationed there, and left 10 more wounded. This indiscriminate attack on sovereign U.S. soil was the 9/11 of its time, ...