Importance today. Yeah. So the mexican expedition and the border itself really needs to be understood in the context of the mexican revolution, and thats a conflict that begins in 1910 with the ouster of the longstanding dictator diaz who is ousted by morero and hes killed soon afterwards and after hes killed several revolutionary faxes emerge from that and one of the faxes is under veentsia carranza and one of the people involved with that is franz copancho villa. Carranza and his constitutionalists have become successful. They managed a large part of the country and at this point of success pancho villa breaks with the constitutionalists and hes successful militarily. He goes from having an army thats about 30,000 to 50,000 people operating mostly in the north of mexico, mostly in the chihuahua to having about 5,001 troops under his command and its sort of a low point in his military career that he decides to start attacking americans at the border. He does this for a couple of diffe