After Pancho Villa and his bandits raided Columbus, New Mexico, and the troops stationed there on March 9, 1916, Brig. Gen. John “Black Jack” Pershing received orders to: “...proceed promptly across the border in pursuit of the Mexican band...the work of [your] troops will be regarded as finished as soon as Villa’s band or bands are known to be broken up.”
Within six days of the attack, Pershing led about 4,800 troops across the Rio Grande into Mexico to launch what would be an
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