Whakaotihia te rerenga e whai ake nei: I muri mai ka arahi a Villa i tetahi whakaekenga ki tetahi taone iti o te rohe o US-Mexico i hua ai te Pakanga o Columbus i te 9 o Poutu-te-rangi 1916, ka hoki whakamuri ki te mawhiti i te utu a te US. I tonoa e te kāwanatanga o U.S. a U.S. Army General John J. Pershing ki
he haerenga ki te hopu i a ia, engari i haere tonu a Villa ki te karo i ana kaiwhaiwhai me nga tikanga guerilla i te wa o te whakaekenga kore e iwa-marama ki te rohe rangatira o Mexico. I mutu te misioni i te wa i uru ai te United States ki te Pakanga Tuatahi o te Ao, a, i whakahokia mai a Pershing ki etahi atu mahi.