Mexican Revolution revolution was in 1914, during the "Ypiranga" incident. When United States intelligence agents received word that the "Ypiranga", a German merchant ship, contained illegal firepower for Huerta, President Wilson ordered American troops to the port of Veracruz to stop the ship from docking. Wilson never actually declared war on Mexico. The United States skirmished with Huerta's troops in Veracruz. The "Ypiranga" successfully docked at another port and unloaded the arms, which greatly angered Wilson. The ABC Powers arbitrated and U.S. troops left Mexican soil, but the incident added to already tense Mexican-American relations. In 1916, in retaliation for Pancho Villa's
Tell it to the Marines He "warns" of the invincibility of the German war machine and instructs the Americans to be sure to tell the Army and the Navy and, above all, "Tell it to the Marines!!" Naturally, the Nazis don't get the reference. The phrase was used in the 1942 serial "G-Men vs the Black Dragon" (it is a captured American agent's response to a sneering Japanese villain's account of Axis victories) The phrase is the title of a British sitcom, "Tell It to the Marines", which aired on ITV from 1959 to 1960. In a 1972 episode of "Doctor Who" ("Day of the