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Please visit our EBAY STORE at the link directly below for HUNDREDS of HISTORICAL NEWSPAPERS on sale or at auction: /Steve-Goldman-HISTORICAL-NEWSPAPERS_W0QQsspagenameZL2222QQtZkm SEE PHOTO----- COMPLETE ORIGINAL NEWSPAPER, the Baltimore News (MD dated July 20, 1923. Front page, 5 column headline and photo with news of the ASSASSINATION of Mexican outlaw PANCHO VILLA. Unusually nice display newspaper on the DEATH of Mexican border bandit PANCHO VILLA. Doroteo Arango Arámbula (5 June 1878 – 20 July 1923), better known as Francisco " Pancho " Villa , was the first Mexican Revolutionary general along with Ramiro Cervantes and Uriel Carrasco . As commander of the División del Norte (Division of the North), he was the veritable caudillo of the Northern Mexican state of Chihuahua which, given its size, mineral wealth, and proximity to the United States of America, gave him great popularity. Villa was also provisional Governor of Chihuahua in 1913 and 1914. Although he was prevented from being accepted into the "panteón" of national heroes until some 20 years after his death, today his memory is honored by Mexicans and many people around the world. In addition, numerous streets and neighborhoods in Mexico are named in his honor. General John J. Pershing tried to capture Villa after a year in pursuit. Villa and his supporters, known as Villistas, used tactics such as propaganda and firing squads against his enemies, and seized hacienda land for distribution to peasants and soldiers. He robbed and commandeered trains , and, like the other revolutionary generals, printed fiat money to pay for his cause. After the revolution ended in 1920, Villa was given an hacienda outside of Hidalgo del Parral , Chihuahua . This was in addition to the estate that he owned with his wife, María Luz Corral de Villa, in Chihuahua, Chihuahua . Pancho Villa was ambushed, shot and killed in his car, while visiting Parral on July 20, 1923. A hero to some and a villain to others, Pancho Villa was a brutal modern-day version of Robin Hood . Born a peasant, Doroteo Arango got on the wrong side of the law early; according to legend he shot to death a wealthy hacienda owner who had made advances on his sister. Arango fled into the mountains and then joined a gang led by Francisco "Pancho" Villa; when that Villa was killed, Arango took over his name and his gang. In 1910 the new Villa and his men joined the revolt against Mexican dictator Porfirio Diaz. (Among Villa's fellow revolutionaries was another Mexican folk hero, Emiliano Zapata .) The revolution succeeded, but a few years later shifting alliances made Villa an outlaw again. Over the next decade he criss-crossed the U.S.-Mexico border, robbing and rustling cattle to survive, with armies from both sides unable to capture him. (One famous U.S. expedition was led by "Black Jack" Pershing and included future General George S. Patton .) Villa's sympathy for peasants and his early battles against the corrupt Diaz regime made him popular with Mexico's poor, and his exploits were heavily publicized in the U.S. and around the world. In 1920 Villa accepted a deal with a new Mexican government, laying down his arms in exchange for thousands of acres of land in Durango. He was assassinated three years later, though his killers were never captured. The Battle of Columbus was a raid conducted by Pancho Villa 's Division of the North on the small desert town of Columbus, New Mexico . Pancho Villa himself led the assault, only to be driven back into Mexico by elements of the 13th Cavalry . Background At the beginning of the Mexican Revolution , Pancho Villa was considered a hero by both Mexicans and Americans . Overtime, Villa's popularity gradually declined. General John J. Pershing met with Pancho in 1913 at Fort Bliss, Texas, for friendly purposes. In the years that followed this meeting, more and more scandals involving the execution of civilians, by Villa and his men, began to c...
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