Pancho Villa and about 400 of his men crossed the Mexican border near Columbus New Mexico.
The town had a U.S. Army garrison of 600.
The town was also the home of Sam Ravel, a man to whom Villa had given money to buy arms but who had not delivered, although that is unlikely to have been the reason for the attack, as we discussed here:
The Columbus Raid. Why did it occur?
Ottoman forces stopped a much larger British force attempting to relieve Kut.
The sledging party of the second arm of the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition was reduced to three walking members during their return trek from Mount Hope in the Antarctic.
Last edition:
Tuesday, March 7, 1916. Villa close to the border.
Labels: 1910s, 1916, boats and ships, British Army, Egypt, Mexican Border War, Mexican Revolution, Mexico, Pancho Villa, Royal Navy, Senussi
