Blood on the Border: The United States Army and the Mexican IrregularsMacmillan, 1969 - 390 pages |
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Page 239
... Villistas were trying to escape . Dodd's immediate purpose became that of preventing their escape . Sev- eral troops were dismounted and the machine guns set up , open- ing fire at the fugitives at long range . Many of them could be ...
... Villistas were trying to escape . Dodd's immediate purpose became that of preventing their escape . Sev- eral troops were dismounted and the machine guns set up , open- ing fire at the fugitives at long range . Many of them could be ...
Page 274
... Villistas ' horses were grazing in a pasture east of the place and at some distance . As the scouts appeared , the herd guard caught sight of them and opened fire . The scouts should have disregarded the fire , which was totally ...
... Villistas ' horses were grazing in a pasture east of the place and at some distance . As the scouts appeared , the herd guard caught sight of them and opened fire . The scouts should have disregarded the fire , which was totally ...
Page 279
... Villistas had been extremely cautious since Private Huelett dropped two of them and hurriedly took their departure as the relieving troops approached . The two dead Mexicans were searched ; the papers revealed that one of them was ...
... Villistas had been extremely cautious since Private Huelett dropped two of them and hurriedly took their departure as the relieving troops approached . The two dead Mexicans were searched ; the papers revealed that one of them was ...
Contents
The Background and Beginningthe 1850s | 1 |
Mexico | 3 |
Robin Hood on the Rio Grande | 16 |
Copyright | |
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10th Cavalry 1st Aero Squadron Adjutant Aero Squadron Agua Prieta American ammunition Apache scouts Arizona arrived artillery attack band bandits became brigade Brown Brownsville camp Captain captured Carranza Carranzista cars Casas Grandes Chihuahua Colonel Colonia Dublán Columbus column command Cortina Crook crossed Cruz Diary Díaz Dodd El Paso enemy fight force Ford Foreign Relations Fort Brown Funston garrison Geronimo Guerrero headquarters Heintzelman horses Huerta Ibid Indians Infantry Juarez Kickapoos killed large numbers later Lieutenant Lower Rio machine gun Mackenzie Madero Major Matamoras Mexican Mexico City miles military morning moved Namiquipa National Guard night officers orders packtrain Pancho Villa Paso Pershing Pershing's Porfirio Díaz President prisoners Punitive Expedition raiders raids ranch Rangers regiment reported river road San Antonio Santa Secretary sent shot soldiers Sonora tion Tompkins took town trail train troops truck Twiggs United States Army Vera Cruz Villistas wagon wounded