Nyorai kuenderera mberi kweiyi ndima - 17th Cavalry Regiment yakarongwa pasi pemitemo yeNational Defense Act ya1916 paFort Bliss, Texas musi wa30 Chikumi 1916 uye yakaumbwa musi wa1 Chikunguru 1916. Brigadier General John J. Pershing akanga atora mapoka ake kupinda muMexico nguva pfupi yakanga yapfuura uye kudikanwa kwamasoja anotasva mabhiza kwakanga kuchimanikidzira. Vakuru makumi matatu nevaviri uye varwi mazana manomwe nemakumi mapfumbamwe nemumwe kubva ku1st, 3rd, 6th, 8th uye 14th Cavalry Regiments vakaendeswa senzvimbo yechirongwa chechirongwa chitsva. Zvizhinji zvaizvozvi zvakayeukwa kubva kuMexico Punitive Expedition
uye sezvo vose vakanga vari mapurisa aiva noruzivo, nguva shomanene yakashandiswa mukuisa sangano racho muchimiro. Mutungamiri wehurumende, Colonel Willard A. Holbrook, akatora mutungamiri musi wa 9 Chikunguru 1916, musi iwoyo varume ve8 vakabatana ne17th Cavalry Regiment. Colonel Holbrook akabata basa kusvikira akwidziridzwa kuva mukuru mukuru.