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Studying Villa’s Raid

by | Jun 23, 2015 | Uncategorized

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March 9, 1916, started out bad for the 13th Cavalry at Camp Furlong. Ignoring the warning that Mexican Revolution Gen. Pancho Villa was in the area, the soldiers were asleep when 400 to 500 Villistas rode into Columbus, New Mexico, around four that morning. “They were completely unprepared,” U.S. Army Historian Dr. Robert Bouilly says. “Some woke up and fought back with baseball bats.” By the time the soldiers got to their guns, Villistas had killed or wounded 26 Americans, burned do


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