Introduction

Pancho Villas Biographer Fridric Katz says this is the first time that you have different powers intervening with different factions of the rebel. Britain's interest, I think especially at this time, is oil and they want to do their business under the American umbrella. The British seemed to be the least inclined to underestimate colonials but the Americans and Germans just seemed to have expected the Mexicans to do whatever they were told or be fooled easily.