In 1916, Pancho Villa's army looted the village searching for food and took some of the old man's chickens. As he resisted, one of Villa's men and later Indiana Jones tried to excuse themselves claiming that it was in the old man's own good, as the revolutionaries claimed goal was to free the Mexican people. The old man, who was a retired soldier from Benito Juárez's army and fought against the French and Mexican monarchists in the 1860s, had already heard that excuse many times and didn't believe it. He told his story to Indiana Jones in the following "speech of the chickens":