Although the National Guard has often been used against civil rebellion, deploying federal military forces within the U.S. is a drastic and historically rare move. I’ve studied the history and ...

Pershing’s “Buffalo” soldiers of the 10th Cavalry of about 100 men, led by Captain Charles T. Boyd, encountered a Mexican force of 400 under the command of Captain Felix Gómez.

The Mexican impersonator mastered speed and surprise, but he failed to comprehend the subtler elements of the great man’s strategy. Whatever else he may have been, Santa Anna was no Napoleon.

The peasant leader fought for radical agrarian reform in early 20th-century Mexico in the midst of dictators and upheaval. But in 1919, he was betrayed and killed by a traitorous ally.

The final episode explores the Mexican Revolution in the early part of the last century. The Mexican Revolution achieved the foundations of a modern Mexico. The episode examines the roles of ...

Sept. 16 marks the celebration of Mexico winning independence from the clutches of imperial Spain in the early 19th century. Over the years, its significance for the Mexican diaspora in the United ...

The Battle of the Alamo took place in early 1836, during the Texas Revolution. It was fought between Mexican and Texan forces at a fort called the Alamo in San Antonio.

While Mexican generals played leading roles in the 1910-17 revolution and post-revolutionary governments in the 1920s and 1930s, since the 1940s the army has been unusual in Latin America in that ...

She fought by the side of the Madero forces in the Storming of Torreón, Coahuila, where federal forces were expelled. She wore man’s clothes to participate in the Revolution but later she was ...

Despite Taft’s stance, Henry Lane Wilson (1857-1932), Taft’s ambassador to Mexico, played a key role in the Mexican Revolution then underway.

TEXAS CITY — Pancho Villa's hard-riding vaqueros and the federal troops they vanquished 100 years ago during the violent Mexican Revolution are never far from Manuel Urbina's thoughts. Urbina, a ...

The coalescence of radical forces and the drug gangs could create a climate propitious for revolutionary violence in 2010. Mexico’s 1910 revolution was not confined to any one region.