Battle of Carrizal

Battle of Carrizal

Infobox Military Conflict
conflict=Battle of Carrizal
partof=the Mexican Revolution


caption=
date=June 21, 1916
place=Carrizal, Chihuahua, Mexico
casus=
territory=
result=Mexican Victory
combatant1=US Army, C, K Troop of 10th Cavalry
combatant2=Mexican Federal troops
commander1=Capt. Boyd, Capt. Morey
commander2=Gen. Felix Gomez
strength1=92
strength2=unknown
casualties1=14 men, 23 taken prisoner
casualties2=45 men, including Gen. Félix Gómez.Campaign
name= Mexican Revolution
battles=Celaya-Casas Grandes-1st Rellano-2nd Rellano-Tierra Blanca-Torreon-Leon-Agua Prieta-Zacatecas-Carrizal

The Battle of Carrizal occurred on the June 211916. This was a major skirmish between US troops of the General John J. Pershing's Punitive Expedition force and Mexican Army troops.

Description

In June 1916, General Pershing was informed that Pancho Villa could be taken at Carrizal, west of Ahumada. When he sent Captains Boyd and Morey to investigate with C and K troops of the 10th Cavalry, they were confronted with Mexican Federal troops, not Villa's men. Boyd ordered the men to attack anyway. According to the US Army Center of Military History, the Colored U.S. 10th Cavalry Regiment was heavily involved in this battle.

By legend, Villa supposedly watched with delight as his two enemies fought it out with each other. However, this story is of doubtful veracity as Villa was badly injured at the time and being pursued by both the US Army and the "Federales".

The U.S. Cavalry lost 2 officers and 14 men, and 23 were taken prisoner, the Mexican forces lost 45, including the commanding Officer, General Felix Gomez.

This clash caused enough tension that war between the USA and Mexico seemed possible.

The simultaneous deterioration of German-American relations while World War I raged in Europe made any escalation in Mexico undesirable and so negotiations followed.

Legacy

Lt. Henry Rodney Adair was killed in this battle. During World War II, Camp Adair was established in the Willamette Valley, Oregon as an Army training facility in honor of his service. [ [http://www.salemhistory.net/culture/world_war_II_adair.htm Henry Adair and Camp Adair] ]

References

*Braddy, Haldeen (1957). "Pancho Villa: Fact, Fiction, or Folklore." "Journal of American Folklore" 70 (1957).
*Calhoun, Frederick (1986). "Power and Principle: Armed Intervention in Wilsonian Foreign Policy". Kent, Ohio: Kent State University Press.
*Eisenhower, John (1993). "Intervention!: The United States and the Mexican Revolution, 1913-1917". New York: Norton.
*Mason, Herbert M (1970). "The Great Pursuit". New York: Random House.
*Salinas Carranza, Alberto (1937) "La Expedicion Punitiva". Mexico, DF: Ediciones Botas.
*(1916) "Seek Only Nation's Peace." "New York Times" June 23.
*Sweeney, William (1919). "History of the American Negro in the Great War". Chicago: Sapp.

ee also

*Mexican Service Campaigns
*Battles of the United States
*United States involvement in the Mexican Revolution


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