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In 1916-17, Gen. John J. Pershing’ headed the ill-fated “Punitive Expedition,” meant to track down Gen. Francisco “Pancho” Villa, the Mexican revolutionary whose forces had raided the U.S. town of Columbus, New Mexico.

“I knew they weren’t out of town. They didn’t have money to travel,” one client told The Times in 2020.

It may soon take the battered town of Pokrovsk, after 21 months and thousands of deaths.

I grin and look out the window—but my smile wavers as I regard my parents’ navy-bricked town house.

She gave her globe another half spin and gazed upon the eye of the potato that gamely stood in for the town of Heathcote, where she had spent so many happy years at school.