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Bliss booms

August 20, 2026

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Pancho Villa’s 1916 raid on Columbus, New Mexico, and the wider Mexican Revolution profoundly reshaped the U.S.-Mexico border region, especially El Paso and Fort Bliss. Villa’s attack alarmed the United States, prompting President Woodrow Wilson to mobilize the National Guard and send about 100,000…

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