Villa raids Columbus, New Mexico
1916 · Event
Betrayed, as he sees it, by Washington's recognition of Carranza, Villa leads 500 men across the border and burns an American town — the first armed invasion of the continental United States since 1812. Pershing's Punitive Expedition chases him through Chihuahua for eleven months and never catches him.
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