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Pancho Villa Mexican revolutionary Pancho Villa.

Pancho Villa

Mexican revolutionary
Also known as: Doroteo Arango, Francisco Villa
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Pancho Villa (born June 5, 1878, Hacienda de Río Grande, San Juan del Río, Durango, Mexico—died July 20, 1923, Parral, Chihuahua) was a Mexican revolutionary and guerrilla leader who fought against the regimes of both Porfirio Díaz and Victoriano Huerta and after 1914 engaged in civil war and banditry. Villa was the son of a field labourer and was orphaned at an early age. In revenge for an assault on his sister, he killed one...

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