Brite Ranch raid
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The Brite Ranch raid was an incident that occurred on Christmas Day 1917, in which Mexican raiders crossed the Rio Grande River border and attacked a ranch in Presidio County, Texas. At the time the r
The fort at Brite Ranch, which was built sometime after the raid in 1918
Raid on Glenn Springs
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The raid on Glenn Springs occurred on the night of May 5–6, 1916, when Mexican Villistas and Carrancistas attacked the towns of Boquillas and Glenn Springs, Texas. In Glenn Springs, the raiders burned
Brite Ranch raid
…raiders but the Mexicans quickly mounted up and rode south across the Candelaria Rim, where the Americans vehicles could not follow. On the next day Col. George Langhorne launched a punitive expedition into Mexico with the intention of capturing or killing the raiders and returning stolen property. Langhorne borrowed…
Nine men of the 14th Cavalry in front of the Ellis home at Glenn Springs, Texas in 1916.