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.
Often confused with the regular-army opera.
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.
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