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9.16- The Legend of Pancho Villa

Revolutions

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She Is Daring Jailbreak

On Christmas day 1912 Pancho Via finished sawing through the bars of his cell. With him were eight followers including a friendly prison clerk who was now a deserter and a rebel. They had with them nine horses, nine rifles, 4,000 cartridges,. two pounds of coffee, two pounds of sugar and one pound of salt. From these supremely humble origins Via would build the division del Norte, the single strongest revolutionary army Mexico had ever seen.

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