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   From: dtravel@sonic.net   
      
   On 3/27/2024 5:02 PM, Scott Dorsey wrote:   
   > Keith F. Lynch  wrote:   
   >> Scott Dorsey  wrote:   
   >>> Does not count, for the same reason that 1863 unpleasantness doesn't.   
   >>   
   >> Okay, how about Pancho Villa's attack on Columbus, New Mexico in   
   >> March, 1916?   
   >   
   > Was Pancho Villa an authorized representative acting on behalf of the   
   > Mexican government?  Or was he acting as a private citizen?   
   >   
   > I seem to recall that Villa had previously been a representaive of the   
   > Mexican government but that at some point he had gone out on his own,   
   > and I think that was before 1916 but I cannot recall precisely.   
      
   I believe Villa's raid was after as part of why he did it was in an   
   attempt to drag the US into his conflict with the Mexican government.   
      
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