Located near the U.S.-Mexico border, this park remembers the famous raid of General Francisco “Pancho” Villa and his soldiers.
Columbus, NM is a small town 75 miles west of El Paso, TX famous for the Pancho Villa raid of 1916 and General Pershing's subsequent Punitive Expedition into Mexico. The town hosts a historical museum, the Pancho Villa State Park, and nine metal plates describing the raid. The plates, ...
Pancho Villa State Park campground has 79 developed sites (75 with electric hookups) and is located on the grounds of former Camp Furlong.
Pancho Villa and the Battle of Columbus: Frontiers in Digital NewspapersAndrew WeidnerTwenty-First Annual World History Association Conference, 2012, Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States
Outraged by the Columbus raid, Woodrow Wilson ordered a "punitive expedition" of 5,000 U.S. soldiers to follow Villa into Mexico and kill or capture him. Congressional hearings led by New Mexico Sen. Albert Fall deemed Mexico responsible for as many as 550 American deaths on both sides of...
Francisco Villa Original name: Doroteo Arango Born: June 5, 1878, Hacienda de Río Grande, San Juan del Río,Durango,Mexico Died: July 20, 1923,Parral,Chihuahua(aged 45) Role In: Battle of Celaya Battle of Ciudad Juárez Battle of Columbus ...