The Battle of Carrizal: America's Worst Defeat in the Hunt for Pancho Villa
Captain Charles T. Boyd led his mounted troopers across the Mexican desert. He had been ordered to avoid a fight. But on June 21, 1916, outside Carrizal, Mexico, Boyd faced 400 Mexican federal troops blocking his path. Their commander, General Félix Uresti Gómez, warned him to turn back. Three months earlier, Pancho Villa had raided […]
Everyone Feared the Worst About Robert Card. No One Stopped Him.
Everyone who knew Robert Card was concerned about his behavior. His ex-wife and teenage son. His siblings, parents and friends. Fellow members of an Army Reserve unit in Saco, Maine. They knew he was having psychotic episodes and hearing voices. They knew he had been making threats and that those threats were getting more specific. […]