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Mexican Revolution pt2: Villa and Zapata take Mexico City

The Anti Empire Project with Justin Podur

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The Viyya's Advance

Viyya takes Chihuahua in 1914. Carranza will dissolve the Federal army if he wins, he says. So Viyya climbs onto a train with 2,000 men and cavalry following him. He cables them from each station telling them, okay, we're at this station. And so they know that the train is coming but don't realize it's full of bunch of Viyya's troops.

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