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Pancho Villa's family tree includes his parents, Agustin Arango and Micaela Arambula. In addition, it would include his brothers Antonio and Hipolito as well as his sister Martina.
Pancho Villa was reportedly married 26 times. Which wife were you referring to?
Pancho Villa was a general in the Mexican Revolution. His goals were to advocate for the poor, and to implement agrarian reform. He became known for seizing land to give to peasants and soldiers.
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The usual explanation is that during the "Punitive Expedition" into Mexico in 1916, where Pershing led American soldiers in a long "chase" around northern Mexico after Pancho Villa, the infantry soldiers frequently got covered with dust. It was adobe dust (the same soil used as the primary building material in the southwest), so the mounted soldiers called these dusty infantrymen "adobes". Then it became "dobies". From there it was a short transliteration to "doughboys". By the way, their sons in the next war did not call themselves "GIs". They called themselves "doughs". Pershing (a city in Michigan) High School's mascot is the doughboy