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Pancho Villa State Park

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Pancho Villa State Park

August 20, 2026

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Pancho Villa’s raid on Columbus, New Mexico, on March 9, 1916, left the town and Camp Furlong in ruins and prompted the U.S. Army’s Punitive Expedition into Mexico under General John J. Pershing. Beginning on March 16, 1916, Pershing’s force pursued Villa as far south as Parral, ranging through the…

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