1900-1920

Pancho Villa || //El Centauro del Norte// (The Centaur of the North) ||
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 * ~ Nickname || //Pancho Villa//
 * ~ Place of birth || [|San Juan Del Rio], [|Durango], [|Mexico] ||
 * ~ Place of death || [|Parral], [|Chihuahua], [|Mexico] ||
 * ~ Allegiance || [|Mexico] (//antireeleccionista// revolutionary forces) ||
 * ~ Rank || General ||
 * ~ Commands held || //División del Norte// ||

Doroteo Arango Arambula was better known as Francisco or Pancho villa he was a Mexican Revolutionary general. When Francisco was 16 he shot a young man, who was a son of a big landowner which was accused of raping Villa’s younger sister Pancha. Labeled with that death he was declaimed as a murderer and imprisoned. Quickly he escaped. The following years he was a outlaw, then worked his way up to a position as a division commander. When he was in the division of the north he became more popular and then he became the governor of Chihuahua in 1913 and 1914. Villa and his supporters, known as Villistas, employed tactics such as propaganda and firing squads against their enemies. Villa’s generalship was noted for the speed of its movement of troops and its use of an elite cavalry unit called Los dorados (the golden ones). He was also famous for his artillery attacks and recruitment of the enlisted soldiers of defeated enemy units.