Pancho Villa's Role In The Mexican Revolution

The subject we chose was the Mexican revolutionary general, Pancho Villa. As for the categories, we decided to write about his life, his involvement with the Mexican Revolution, and finally what he did in politics. We chose this topic since it seemed like Pancho Villa lived an interesting and dangerous life. His involvement with government figures like Mexican presidents and his leadership among a group of guerrillas were vaguely mentioned in the actual textbook, so we were a curious to research more about Pancho Villa. With that, it seemed like many people were divided in whether they thought he was hero or simply a criminal. While researching for more information, he was sometimes described as a sort of Robin Hood. That being said, people
He was said to have been a great rebel, and was promoted to a colonel in Madero’s army. Later on Mexico would have a civil war, going against the federal army and Porfirio Diaz. The war lasted for about a decade, and Villa was one of the only revolutionaries who survived the decade of bloody battles. As the rebels kept fighting against the federal army, Diaz went into exile. After this, Madero became the new president. But, Villa was arrested because of General Victoriano Huerta’s accusation that Villa stole his horse, and was sentenced to death. Right before the firing squad killed him, Madero stepped in and stopped the whole ordeal, taking note of the fact that Villa has always been loyal to him. It was later revealed that Huerta was now against Madero, and had assassinated Madero. After this occurrence, Villa teamed up with Emiliano Zapata and Venustiano Carranza to take down Huerta to take revenge for his long lost friend. Fast forward a bit, General Obregon found out Villa’s weakness was the use of horses in his battles. Villa liked using barbed wires against his enemies, but now it was used against him. Whenever a horse passed through the barbed wire, the result was carnage. This then led to many instances of defeat, so Villa retreated back to the mountains and participating once again in guerilla warfare. All the while, Americans saw Carranza as the head of the Mexican government, and gave him and his army access to American railroads to try and defeat Villa’s band of guerillas. Villa was angered, and planned to take revenge on Americans. So, he entered Columbus, New Mexico, and attacked and killed people there. President Wilson then put a wanted sign on Villa, offering $5,000 dollars to anyone who could find Villa, dead or alive. American soldiers, led by General Pershing spent about eleven months and a lot of money, but they never