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Did you know that America was once attacked by Mexico?
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Posted 10 y ago
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Actually, the incident given was not the "first" time Mexico had raided inside the U.S. It was simply the time the U.S. government decided to use that particular raid as an excuse to launch a punitive raid into Mexico after hundreds of similar raids into Texas, N.M.,etc. As usual, politics raises it's ugly head and looks for an excuse.......
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P01 Medley, likely true, yet I am not aware of any federally sponsored incursions into Mexico prior to that. I am aware of Texas Rangers who did, pursuing Commanche, and banditos. Wouldn't be the first time I was asleep at the wheel.
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SGM Coberly - to clarify, Villa's raid into the U.S. that was used as an excuse to send in the Expeditionary force led by Gen. Pershing was NOT the FIRST raid that Villa was known to have crossed into the U.S. Villa had made numerous raids into border areas and ranches throughout the west - the raid you are referring to in the article just happened to be the one the politicians in Washington D.C. used to justify Pershing's Expedition.
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There've been a number of undocumented or not-well-publicised border incursions. This happens more frequently than people let on.
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