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Pancho

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Every now and then, the human race produces unique, one-of-a-kind characters who become our celebrities, mentors, and the stuff from which legends are born. Florence Lowe Pancho Barnes was a character among characters. Born at the dawn of the twentieth century, she inherited wealth, status, and privilege from a family overflowing with visionaries, artists, and inventors. They endowed her with a keen intellect, spontaneity, and an insatiable appetite for adventure. As a result, Pancho never passed up an opportunity due to indecision nor did she ever hesitate to voice her opinions. She lived in a world of direct action with little room for rules or conformity. Aviation writer Don Dwiggins described his long-time friend well. “She was a rebel with a simple cause – to enjoy life on its own terms, as an individualist, not only for what it had to offer but for what she could contribute as well.” 1Pancho’s story is spun with treks through primitive jungles, fast living, and a renowned elocution of profanity. No one could swear with the complete abandonment and

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The Life and Times of Pancho Villa

Alongside Moctezuma and Benito Juárez, Pancho Villa is probably the best-known figure in Mexican history. Villa legends pervade not only Mexico but the United States and beyond, existing not only in the popular mind and tradition but in ballads and movies. There are legends of Villa the Robin Hood, Villa the womanizer, and Villa as the only foreigner who has attacked the mainland of the United States since the War of 1812 and gotten away with it.

Whether exaggerated or true to life, these legends have resulted in Pancho Villa the leader obscuring his revolutionary movement, and the myth in turn obscuring the leader. Based on decades of research in the archives of seven countries, this definitive study of Villa aims to separate myth from history. So much attention has focused on Villa himself that the characteristics of his movement, which is unique in Latin American history and in some ways unique among twentieth-century revolutions, have been forgotten or neglected. Villa’s División del Norte was probably the largest revolutionary army that

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Pancho Villa

Mexican revolutionary general and politician (1878–1923)

For other uses, see Pancho Villa (disambiguation).

In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Arango and the second or maternal family name is Arámbula.

Francisco "Pancho" Villa (PAN-choh VEE-ə,^[3]^[4]PAHN-choh VEE-(y)ə,^[3]^[5]Spanish:[ˈpantʃoˈβiʎa]; born José Doroteo Arango Arámbula; 5 June 1878 – 20 July 1923) was a Mexican revolutionary and prominent figure in the Mexican Revolution. He was a key figure in the revolutionary movement that forced out President Porfirio Díaz and brought Francisco I. Madero to power in 1911. When Madero was ousted by a coup led by General Victoriano Huerta in February 1913, Villa joined the anti-Huerta forces in the Constitutionalist Army led by Venustiano Carranza. After the defeat and exile of Huerta in July 1914, Villa broke with Carranza. Villa dominated the meeting of revolutionary generals that excluded Carranza and helped create a coalition government. Emiliano Zapata and Villa bec