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Did you know ...

• in 1915, during the Mexican Revolution, Woodrow Wilson allowed Carranza's troops to be moved over US territory, contributing to Pancho Villa's (pictured) defeat at the Second Battle of Agua Prieta?
• the pre-Columbian ruins of Teopanzolco in Mexico are said to have been rediscovered during the Mexican Revolution when an artillery emplacement shook loose some dirt from the stonework?
• the Battle of Cuautla between the Zapatistas (pictured) and troops of Porfirio Diaz, has been described as "six of the most terrible days of battle" in the Mexican Revolution?
• during the Mexican Revolution, the rebel leader Jesús Salgado, whose revolt often shaded into outright banditry, led 5000 Zapatista troops in the taking of the capital of Guerrero, Chilpancingo?
• during the Mexican Revolution, Metropolitan Magazine sent reporter John Reed to Mexico where he stayed with Pancho Villa?
• Mexican revolutionary Rubén Jaramillo ran for governor of Morelos twice and led two armed rebellions against the government?
• Russian native Emilio Kosterlitzky, known as the Mexican Cossack, spoke nine languages, jumped ship in Venezuela, fled to Mexico where he fought in the Apache Wars and in the Mexican Revolution, and eventually became an undercover operative for the U.S. government during World War I?
• Pablo González, the Carranzistan chief responsible for Emiliano Zapata's murder, was also known as "the general who never won a victory" during the entire Mexican Revolution?
• the grandson of Giuseppe Garibaldi, the Boer general Ben Viljoen, and future Hollywood Western star Tom Mix (pictured) fought for the rebel army in the Battle of Ciudad Juárez, part of the Mexican Revolution?