Mexican troops back in the U.S. (n.a.)
A Mexican army convoy rolled into the United States yesterday with food, water and medicine for Hurricane Katrina victims, the first Mexican military operation on U.S. soil since 1916.
The convoy of 45 vehicles and some 200 troops is part of an aid package that includes ships and rescue teams.
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Mexican forces under revolutionary Gen. Francisco (Pancho) Villa, angry at U.S. support for a rival, staged a small raid into New Mexico in 1916.
They were the bedraggled remnants of an army faction on the losing side of the Mexican revolution, but their action is seen by historians as the last military incursion into the United States.
The Villa troops killed several people on a raid on Columbus, New Mexico, prompting Washington to send a larger force into Mexico in retaliation.
The two countries fought a full-blown war in the mid-19th century, when the United States took what are now its southwestern states from Mexico.
The convoy of 45 vehicles and some 200 troops is part of an aid package that includes ships and rescue teams.
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Mexican forces under revolutionary Gen. Francisco (Pancho) Villa, angry at U.S. support for a rival, staged a small raid into New Mexico in 1916.
They were the bedraggled remnants of an army faction on the losing side of the Mexican revolution, but their action is seen by historians as the last military incursion into the United States.
The Villa troops killed several people on a raid on Columbus, New Mexico, prompting Washington to send a larger force into Mexico in retaliation.
The two countries fought a full-blown war in the mid-19th century, when the United States took what are now its southwestern states from Mexico.