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 * Francisco Pancho Villa **

Pancho Villa was born in 1877 in Doroteo Arango to an unwealthy family who worked as sharecroppers on the land of Lopez Negrete. In legend, when Villa was young and working on Negrete's land, he tried to rape on of his daughters, and was shot in the foot. To escape further consequences he ran to the mountains and became a wealthy bandit, earning the reputation of one like Robin Hood for giving money to the poor. In the mountains it is said that he rose to leadership through "bravery and ruthlessness ".

When Pancho heard news of the Revolution going on, he immediately gathered his fellow bandits and quickly joined forces with other revolutionary leaders such as Zapata and Madero. He soon became one of the strongest forces in the North, and after Madero had ended his exile in the United States, Villa had met him and taken him to Mexico City to become President. Villa had said that although Madero wasn't president material, he could see promise in him.