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The Garza War, so named for the revolutionary firebrand and editor Catarino Erasmo Garza, actually comprised three concerted Texas-based attempts to overthrow Díaz: a June 1890 raid led by Francisco Ruiz Sandoval, the Garza Raid of September 1891, and the San Ignacio Raid of December 1892. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h1\u003e\n\n\u003ch1 style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size:18px;\"\u003eIn the first detailed military history of the Garza War, Thomas Ty Smith reveals how an armed insurrection against a foreign government, conducted on American soil, drew the US Army into a uniquely complex conflict whose repercussions would be felt on both sides of the US-Mexico border for generations to come.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h1\u003e\n\n\u003ch1 style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size:18px;\"\u003eThough not intended as a direct threat to the United States, the insurgency, in using Texas as a staging area, threatened US neutrality laws, forcing the United States to honor its treaty obligations to the Porfirio Díaz government in Mexico City—a proposition further complicated by the Posse Comitatus Act of 1878, which prevented soldiers from acting as law enforcement. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h1\u003e\n\n\u003ch1 style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size:18px;\"\u003eSmith describes how what began as a measured and somewhat limited effort by the United States to enforce the Neutrality Act in Texas eventually escalated into an all-out shooting war between the army and the Garzistas, elevating the counterinsurgency campaign into the highest military, diplomatic, and political echelons of both America and Mexico.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h1\u003e\n\n\u003ch1 style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size:18px;\"\u003eThe Garza War in South Texas profiles central characters in the conflict—such as Captain John Gregory Bourke, famed for his service with Major General George Crook in the Indian Wars; 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