CSPAN3 Reel America Uncle Sam Watching The Mexican Border - 1916 July 12, 2024
Julie yeah, so, the mexican expedition and the border needs to be understood in the context of the mexican revolution. That is a conflict begins in 1910 with the ouster of a longstanding dictator of mexico. He is ousted by a man named francisco madero. He himself is killed soon after, and after he is killed, several revolutionary factions emerge from that. One of the factions that emerges is a fraction under a man that is called the constitutionalist. One of the people who is aligned with the constitutionalist is Francisco Pancho villa. Now, by 1914, the contitutionalists had become successful...