The Great Call-Up: The Guard, the Border, and the Mexican Revolution

by Louis R. Sadler and Charles H. Harris

Book Overview

On June 18, 1916, President Woodrow Wilson called up virtually the entire army National Guard, some 150,000 men, to meet an armed threat to the United States: border raids covertly sponsored by a Mexican government in the throes of revolution. The Great Call-Up tells for the first time the complete story of this unprecedented deployment and its significance in the history of the National Guard, World War I, and U.S.-Mexico relations.

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0806146451
• ISBN13: 9780806146454
• Release Date: January 2015
• Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
• Length: 576 Pages
• Weight: 2.07 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.8" x 6.1" x 9.1"