biography
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Villa, Pancho
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also known as Francisco Villa, originally Doroteo Arango
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pronunciation:
[veeyah]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1878–1923)
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| biography:
| Mexican revolutionary, born in Hacienda de Río Grande, Mexico. He lived his early life as a fugitive before joining Francisco Madero's successful uprising against the Mexican dictator, Porfirio Díaz (1909). He fled to the USA in 1912, and after the assassination of Madero the following year formed the ‘Division del Norte’ (Division of the North). Together with Venustiano Carranza (1859–1920), he led a successful revolt against the regime of Victoriano Huerta (1914), but the two leaders became rivals, and Villa was forced to flee to the mountains. He agreed to retire from politics, and was pardoned (1920), but was later assassinated. |
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