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  1. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Pancho_VillaPancho Villa - Wikipedia

    In January 1916, a group of Villistas attacked a train on the Mexico North Western Railway, near Santa Isabel, Chihuahua, and killed a number of U.S. nationals employed by the American Smelting and Refining Company. The passengers included eighteen Americans, 15 of whom worked for American Smelting.

  2. Feb 9, 2022 · The Villistas looted Columbus and set fire to several buildings, including the Ravel-owned Commercial Hotel, which burned to the ground. A gunfight erupted between the Villistas and the U.S....

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  3. Jul 20, 1998 · Pancho Villa, Mexican revolutionary and guerrilla leader who fought against the regimes of both Porfirio Diaz and Victoriano Huerta and after 1914 engaged in civil war and banditry. Learn more about Villa’s life and revolutionary activities in this article.

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  4. The Conventionists briefly held practically all Mexican territory, but the central authority was weak and could not hold the advantage against the smaller Constitutionalist faction. Obregón decisively defeated Villa in a series of battles the summer of 1915, ending the Conventionists as a force.

  5. www.history.com › topics › latin-americaPancho Villa - HISTORY

    Nov 9, 2009 · After clashing with former revolutionary ally Venustiano Carranza, Villa killed more than 30 Americans in a pair of attacks in 1916. That drew the deployment of a U.S. military expedition into...

  6. After tracing the villistas’ rise and decline, the dissertation examines the lives of Pancho Villa’s followers after 1920 when many became colonists in lands granted to them by Mexico’s government.

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  8. Orozco’s unsuccessful rebellion led to the emergence of three new important forces: Villa, now the primary military leader in Chihuahua; Obregón and the Sonorans; and Huerta. The Villistas represented the agrarian wing of the Orozco coalition, while the Sonorans were a middle-class coalition dominated by professionals and small landowners.

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