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Originally Posted by Sethomas
I also thought that Pancho Via was Mexican. I seem to remember that all of the Spanish American War was fought abroad in Cuba and the Phillipines, and the Mexican American War was fought entirely in the Republic of Texas--not then American soil.
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My mistake was in linking the incident to the Spanish American War circa 1898 or so. The invasion of Pancho Villa was in 1916 and New Mexico was indeed a state at that time. It sounds like the result of the U.S. sticking it's nose into the Mexican Revolution and bringing itself into a dispute that probably could have been avoided. I blame the foreign policy of Teddy Roosevelt. It's still counted technically as the last foreign invasion onto the soil of the contiguous United States. Here is a pretty detailed website of the what led to the incident:
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