General John J. Viva Mexico! Around a dozen or so Columbus residents and eight U. University of Houston history professor Jose Angel Hernandez said it came as Mexico was locked in violent civil war. Villa felt betrayed by President Woodrow Wilson, who Villa believed would recognize his rebel government, Hernandez said. The attack sparked outrage across the U.
Pershing to capture or kill Villa. In the midst of the turmoil, American investors in Mexico insisted that President Woodrow Wilson intervene to restore order, a demand the United States government refused to satisfy. Dissatisfaction and tensions between the two nations continued to mount, even after Venustiano Carranza overturned the Huerta regime in Villa himself refused to recognize the new government and continued his revolution even after the United States, his former arms supplier, extended formal diplomatic recognition to the Carranza administration.
The following year, Villa and his troops took a further blow from the U. The result of this U. Villa also likely needed to capture necessary food, clothes, munitions and other supplies for the ever-dwindling band of revolutionaries. Occasionally violence from the Mexican revolution would spill over and cause disruption, but the town was largely unfazed due to regular protection from a detachment of the US 13th Cavalry, stationed next door at Camp Furlong. This all changed the early morning of March 9, During the attack, Columbus citizens sought refuge in the Hoover Hotel, which remains standing today as part of the historic district.
Courtesy of Paul Garland, Flickr Commons. At approximately am, two bands of Villistas struck the sleeping town simultaneously. Viva Mexico! The resentment engendered in Mexico by the efforts against Pancho Villa, however, did not fade with his death, and Mexican-American relations remained strained for decades to come.
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The troopers stabled their horses in open shed stables just east of the barracks. Commanding officers set up their headquarters between the rail station and the barracks. As darkness gathered over Columbus and Camp Furlong on Wednesday night, March 8, , the community grew still. Merchants turned off their lights and locked their doors. Residents fed their livestock. Families gathered for dinner, some under the soft yellow glow of kerosene lanterns, then turned back their beds for the evening.
Commander Colonel Herbert Slocum and several other officers had motored north, up to Deming, for a polo match. Sentries had taken up their posts. Columbus felt at peace with the night. Less than a mile from the community, Villa gathered his column and called a dismount. He issued orders to his officers, Dorados Golden Ones , tested and faithful comrades-in-arms from the early days of the Mexican conflict.
They would lead their men to strategic positions. Villa would wait with reserves near Cootes Hill. Some of his men remounted. Others prepared to move forward on foot. He challenged them. He received a hail of rifle bullets in answer, suffering mortal wounds, but he exacted a price, killing three of the Villistas before he died. They saw men riding and running, swarming and plundering through the streets like killer bees.
Some panicked, fleeing through the cold night to the sturdiest buildings or into the desert, where they hoped to find shelter. Others took up arms, fighting to save their homes and businesses. Women and children screamed. Railroad pumper Milton James tried to rush his pregnant wife from their home to the Hoover Hotel, which offered the protection of thick adobe walls. She took a bullet that killed both her and her unborn child.
Parks, a telephone switchboard operator, stuck by her post and notified the world that Columbus had come under attack. She suffered cuts from shattering glass, but survived. Frost loaded her three-month-old baby and dragged her wounded husband into their car, and she drove her family north, out of the range of the gunfire, toward Deming and safety.
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