History of the United States II / Unit 8 USH2 1053 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Villa's Raid
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The idea
On March ninth, nineteen sixteen, the rebel Pancho Villa, once backed by Wilson, led fifteen hundred men across the border and burned Columbus, New Mexico.
In practice
More than one hundred people dead in the attack, seventeen of them American.
Where people slip
Wilson had recognised the government of Villa's rival, Venustiano Carranza, in nineteen fifteen, and Villa turned on the United States.
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