How did Pancho Villa become a Mexican Revolutionary general?

In order to demonstrate that Carranza did not control northern Mexico, Villa executed some 17 U.S. citizens at Santa Isabel, Chihuahua, in January 1916 and two ... Villa, PanchoGen. Pancho Villa (centre right) with other Mexican revolutionaries at Hacienda de Bustillos, Chihuahua, Mexico, 1911. read more

Actually the grade was general brigadier honorario and many general dont like a civil without a militar career get this grade. Villa was a great commander and a general with great ability to win battles. read more

Francisco "Pancho" Villa (born José Doroteo Arango Arámbula; 5 June 1878 – 20 July 1923) was a Mexican Revolutionary general and one of the most prominent figures of the Mexican Revolution. As commander of the División del Norte (Division of the North) in the Constitutionalist Army, he was a military-landowner of the northern Mexican state of Chihuahua. read more

Pancho Villa, byname of Francisco Villa, original name Doroteo Arango, (born June 5, 1878, Hacienda de Río Grande, San Juan del Río, Durango, Mexico—died July 20, 1923, Parral, Chihuahua), Mexican revolutionary and guerrilla leader who fought against the regimes of both Porfirio Díaz and Victoriano Huerta and after 1914 engaged in civil war and banditry. read more