g'd morning SDC: cocffee? I am on my third. You posted ==> Villa raided Columbus as payback for Americans who screwed him on an ammunition deal.
Hmmm ovficial version is __+l.Angered over American support of his rivals for the control of Mexico, the peasant-born revolutionary leader Pancho Villa attacks the border town of Columbus, New Mexico
After the 1915 Battle of Celaya, where Villa sustained his greatest defeat, the Division of the North was in shambles, wandering around northern Mexico foraging for supplies. Lacking the military supplies, money, and munitions he needed in order to successfully pursue his war against Mexican President Venustiano Carranza,[1] Villa planned the raid and camped his army of an estimated 500 horsemen outside of Palomas on the Mexican side of the border. The reasons for the raid have never been established. At their camp, Villa and his men waited for his returning patrols.
Before the attack Villa told his men the reasons he had decided to attack this American town. He said the Carranza government had practically sold Mexico to the Americans. He also mentioned how the U.S. had been given the power to name three Mexican cabinet members. However, all this meant very little to Villa’s illiterate soldiers.
One of Villa’s top officer’s, Pablo Lopez put it in plain terms. “We want revenge against the Americans,” he yelled out. Lopez said the U.S. was to blame for their defeat at Agua Prieta and Celaya. He accused the Americans of allowing the Carrancistas to travel across U.S. land to reinforce their garrison
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You posted --> Holmdahl's likely Noss connection is a neon red flag.
I am posting exerpts of Homdahl life, He dertainly doesn't appear to have had access to bars in V ictorio Peak as he always was seeking money in whatever form.
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There was a note of desperation in a letter Holmdahl sent to Frank Polk of the U.S. Department of State on April 30. He wrote:
... my application for executive clemency ... only awaits your recommendation.
I have now exhausted both my savings and my credit, and am two thousand miles from home, without any means whatsoever ... begging your kind and early consideration.
. With no real clues, speculation finally died down, until a friend of Holmdahl, L.M. Shadbolt, revealed that in 1928 he met the soldier of fortune in El Paso. Shadbolt said Holmdahl entered his room in the Sheldon Hotel, unwrapped a bundle of newspapers and out rolled Villa's head. "I'm going to get $5,000 for it," Holmdahl said
Throughout the remainder of the 1930s and into the 1950s Holmdahl did scouting work for petroleum companies, prospected for minerals, and engaged in real-estate promotions in Mexico. With the outbreak of World War II, he applied for active duty with the United States Army, but was turned down in a cursory manner
Throughout the remainder of the 1930s and into the 1950s Holmdahl did scouting work for petroleum companies, prospected for minerals, and engaged in real-estate promotions in Mexico. With the outbreak of World War II, he applied for active duty with the United States Army, but was turned down in a cursory manner
During the last year of his life, when he was in poor health, he was planning a trip back into some remote area of Mexico. My Dad and I tried to talk him out of it, we even tried to hide his car keys, but he found them. On April 8, 1963, while loading his automobile with his prospecting tools, he suffered a sudden massive stroke. He died almost instantly. He was buried in a crypt alongside his wife of almost thirty years. He was nearly 80 years old.
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If you had reas any of my posts you would have seen that I was proposing a series of missions on the land route to Matamoros. NP'd map, while crude, changed it because of the references ot the 1600;s 1700's. locations, which I doubt that many are qualic=fied to make in the 1930's. which leads me to believe it's validity, but I am still working on the 1800's part.
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