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54 Army Hist. 1 (2002)

handle is hein.milandgov/aryhsy0054 and id is 1 raw text is: ARMY HIS TORY I M. PROFESSIONAtL BULLT1N , ARMY IIISTOY Pfi~ 2& 02-I {NL 54) NNashingown.P D. Winter 2002 Shaking the Iron Fist The Mexican Punitive Expedition of 1919 By Roger D. Cunninghaum A\ter the Umiaed States and Meuie signed the treaty of Guadalupe Ibdaigo n l i4 r me nnt hos- .res moi Fndians. outlaws. and remolutnares coniued to plague their common border untl well io the twentieth cenrusy Mmt or thes incidknts provoked a U S mihtary response. the most ct ou being the \e;ican Pumui e Fx pedmon of 1916 17 1 wiTh forces commanded by Hog Gen John J Pershng unsuceswfhiI attempted to capture the Mexican re o- luiionary commander !raneiseo Panch Villa. after his bloody raid on Columbus, New Mexico Less fa- mous, but perhaps more dramatic, w as a much smaller punte expedition tha was taunched in 1919 from the upper Dig Bend region lf western Texas T his s day mnason of the Meuican state of Chihuahua helped mo end a decade of depredations by Mexican bandits, but i also runed the career of u commander, w ho vas court nmanraled for his acnonc during and atIer the opI 1raton T he expedition exemphfied an er-a when the hall ik of American diplomac y was action iater itan w ords. especially as far as Mexico w as concerned ver half of the southern border of the Unted ates is formed by the Riso ( irande. After flowimg about 2 miles southwest frorm U Paso. texas dhe great n' er meets an Imper\ ious ridge at the southern rip of the Rocky Mountains and turns to the n rshcast 1or almost sixy miles creating a big bend, hetilre rc- suming its southw esterly course to the Gul f o Meuico. No terrain along the entre 1. S.Mexicam border is more nuged than that found in this Big Bend region A nessspaperman desernbing i n m 196 said at - rhe eounlr i sn't bad. Iis just worse. W\orse ihe moment T i rd. - to f'6 '' Pr . 7, in ,orem ..9/? (SIt I Cur-p potogra

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