El Leon del Norte, better known as Pancho Villa, was a lusty, hard riding, hard fighting, uneducated peasant. He was also cunning, charismatic and courageous. John J. (Black Jack) Pershing was a highly intelligent, well-educated graduate of West Point and a cavalry leader now commanding the 8th Army at Fort Bliss, Texas. Both men were expert tacticians and skilled at guerilla fighting. The two had met on a friendly basis at border conferences but they never came face to face in battle.

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