What happen on March 9, 1916?

Question

An hero to Mexicans but, an bandit to (?)ringos.

Answer 1

1916 - Pancho Villa leads 1,500 Mexican raiders in an attack against Columbus, New Mexico, killing 17.

Villa ordered 1,500 (disputed, one official US Army report stated "500 to 700") Mexican raiders, reportedly led by villista general Ramon Banda Quesada, to make a cross-border attack against Columbus, New Mexico, in response to the U.S. government's official recognition of the Carranza regime. They attacked a detachment of the 13th US Cavalry, seized 100 horses and mules, burned the town, killed 10 soldiers and 8 of its residents, and took much ammunition and weaponry. Villa's forces suffered the loss of 80 dead or mortally wounded and 5 captured, mostly from US machine gun emplacements.

United States' President Woodrow Wilson responded to the Columbus raid by sending 6,000 troops under General John J. Pershing to Mexico to pursue Villa. (Wilson also dispatched several divisions of Army and National Guard troops to protect the southern US border against further raids and counterattacks.) In the U.S., this was known as the Punitive or Pancho Villa Expedition. During the search, the United States launched its first air combat mission with eight airplanes. At the same time Villa was also being sought by Carranza's army. The U.S. expedition was eventually called off after failing to find Villa, and Villa successfully escaped from both armies.

After the Punitive Expedition, Villa remained at large but never regained his former stature or military power. Carranza's loss of Obregon as chief general in 1917, and his preoccupation with the continuing rebellion of the Zapatista and Felicista forces in the south (much closer to Mexico City and perceived as the greater threat), prevented him from applying sufficient military pressure to extinguish the Villa nuisiance. Few of the Chihuahuans who could have informed on Villa were inclined to cooperate with the Carranza regime. Villa's last major raid was on Ciudad Juárez in 1919.

In 1920, Villa negotiated peace with new President Adolfo de la Huerta and ended his revolutionary activity. He went into semi-retirement, with a detachment of 50 of los dorados for protection, at the hacienda of El Canutillo. He was assassinated three years later (1923) in Parral, Chihuahua, in his car. The assassins were never arrested, although a Durango politician, Jesus Salas Barraza, publicly claimed credit. While there is some circumstantial evidence that Obregon or Plutarco Elías Calles was behind the killing, Villa made many enemies over his lifetime, who would have had motives to murder him. Today Villa is remembered by many Mexicans as a folk hero.

Answer 2

This Day in History - March 9th
Starring - Pancho Villa
The LikeTelevision™ History channel proudly presents, This Day In History - March 9! March 9, 1916 - Pancho Villa Raids the United States. General Francisco Pancho Villa became a renegade bandit when he killed a man who had molested his sister. His revolutionary exploits were already legendary when he led a border raid on Columbus, New Mexico on March 9, 1916. 17 Americans were killed in the attack. Two months earlier, Villa's forces had shot 18 Americans working in US owned mines in Mexico. Immediately after the border raid, 5,000 U.S. cavalrymen stormed into Mexico in a massive hunt for Villa. Within weeks, General Pershing's forces smashed Villa's camp, but its leader escaped. Pancho Villa eventually surrendered to the Mexican government of President Juarte for asylum in 1920 and 3 years later was killed by Mexicans while living peacefully on his ranch.



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Answer 3

Don't you knowwwwwwwwwww.

Mexico invaded the United States, under Pancho Villa. Mexico was saved by World War when we sent General Pershing to Europe.

Answer 4

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Answer 5

Pancho Villa leads 1,500 Mexican raiders in an attack against Columbus, New Mexico, killing 17.

Answer 6

General Fransisco "Poncho" Villa invades U.S. (17 killed)

Answer 7

It puzzles me that one can make a hero out of a thug and killer.

Answer 8

Grampa ran out of toilet paper, and had to use the Sears catalog again.

Answer 9

A lot of people were born.

Answer 10

History channel can help you!!! www.historychannel.com.

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