WORLD HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -What did Pancho Villa do? Pancho Villa was a Mexican revolutionary and guerrilla leader who fought against the regimes of both Porfirio Díaz and Victoriano Huerta. After 1914 he engaged in civil war and banditry. He became notorious in the United States for his attack on Columbus, New Mexico, in 1916.

Detailed explanation-2: -Francisco “Pancho” Villa (UK: /ˈviːə/, also US: /ˈviːjɑː/; Spanish: [ˈbiʎa]; born José Doroteo Arango Arámbula, 5 June 1878 – 20 July 1923) was a general in the Mexican Revolution. He was a key figure in the revolutionary movement that forced out President Porfirio Díaz and brought Francisco I. Madero to power in 1911.

Detailed explanation-3: -At the end of the Mexican Revolution, after his army dwindles, Villa negotiates an amnesty with the Mexican government and retires his military pursuits in 1920, only to be assassinated in an ambush three years later in 1923.

Detailed explanation-4: -In response to the increasing aggression, the U.S. Army launched operations to search for him. Under General John J. Pershing, the 1st Aero Squadron, part of the Aviation Section of the US Army’s Signal Corps, deployed to the Mexican border to stage the operations.

Detailed explanation-5: -President Woodrow Wilson ordered Brigadier General John J. Pershing, to lead a “Punitive Expedition” of U.S. troops into Mexico in pursuit of Villa and his band. Among the troops crossing into Mexico were the 10th Cavalry Buffalo Soldiers commanded by Colonel William Brown.