War on the border : Villa, Pershing, the Texas Rangers, and an American invasion
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New York, N.Y. : Simon & Schuster, 2021.
Format
Book
Edition
First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
ix, 350 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Status
Main Library - Adult
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Published
New York, N.Y. : Simon & Schuster, 2021.
Edition
First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Language
English
UPC
40030620861
Notes
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Description
"From bestselling author Jeff Guinn, the dramatic story of how U.S.-Mexico border tensions erupted into open warfare in 1916, as a U.S. military expedition crossed the border to try to capture Mexican guerrilla Pancho Villa -- a military incursion whose effects still haunt the border region to this day"--,Provided by publisher.
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1916. After Pancho Villa's bloody raid on a small US border town, the "Punitive Expedition" was launched in retaliation. Under Pershing's command it brought together the Army, National Guard, and the Texas Rangers, who were little more than organized vigilantes with a profound dislike of Mexicans on both sides of the border. Villa was a guerrilla fighter who commanded an ever-changing force of conscripts in northern Mexico. The American expedition was the last action by the legendary African-American "Buffalo Soldiers" and the first time the Army used automobiles and trucks, as well as Curtiss Jenny airplanes that did reconnaissance. Guinn tells how the effects of this military incursion still haunt the border region to this day. -- adapted from jacket
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