A bandolier / bandoleer or a bando is a pocketed belt for holding multiple individual cartridges, belts of ammunition, or grenades. It is usually slung sash-style over the shoulder and chest, with the
Mexican revolutionary general Pancho Villa wearing two bandoliers
A complete bandolier of the 17th century
A .41 Swiss intermediate cartridge bandolier
Francisco "Pancho" Villa was a Mexican revolutionary, guerrilla leader, and politician. He was a key figure in the Mexican Revolution, which forced out President and dictator Porfirio Díaz, subsequent
Bandolier
…Mexican revolutionary general Pancho Villa wearing two bandoliers A bandolier / bandoleer or a bando is a pocketed belt for holding multiple individual cartridges, belts of ammunition, or grenades…
General Pancho Villa, 1910.
Villa as he appeared in the United States press during the Revolution
General Pascual Orozco and Colonels Oscar Braniff, Pancho Villa and Peppino Garibaldi, photographed 10 May 1911, after taking Juárez City, during the Mexican Revolution.