Uncle Sam Chases Pancho Villa, cartoon by Clifford Berryman, March 1916, US National Archives, NWL-46-BERRYMAN-A076. For a larger image an more information, search the National Archives NAIL engine, for Columbus, New Mexico.
The Chase for Terrorists 1916 Style
Uncle Sam Chases Pancho Villa, cartoon by Clifford
Berryman, March 1916, US National Archives, NWL-46-BERRYMAN-A076.
For a larger image an more information, search the National
Archives NAIL engine, for Columbus, New
Mexico.
Pershing's forces which included a young
George Patton never captured Villa, but Villa's forces were
driven far from the US-Mexican border which was relatively secure
thereafter. 
Not
surprisingly the Mexican government resented the intrusion over
600 miles into its territory, by Pershing's force. Clashes
between Mexican government forces and The Punitive Expedition
almost sparked a war between the two countries and led the call
up of the United States National Guard and its positioning on the
US-Mexican border. The clashes also produced diplomatic efforts
to avoid more conflict. One of these efforts involved meetings
between General Hugh Scott, Chief of Staff of the US Army and
Mexico's Minister of War and future President Alvaro Obregon in
April-May, 1916. One of the negotiating venues was the Paseo del
Norte Hotel in El Paso, Texas (left.)
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