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The Apache Wars were a series of armed conflicts between the United States Army and various Apache tribal confederations fought in the southwest between 1849 and 1886, though minor hostilities continued until as late as 1924.
26 maj 2024 · The Apache Wars were fought by various Apache tribes against New Spain, Mexico, and the United States. They started in the 17th Century and continued into the early 20th Century. The most prominent Apache leaders were Mangas Coloradas, Cochise, and Geronimo.
The Apache–Mexico Wars, or the Mexican Apache Wars, refer to the conflicts between Spanish or Mexican forces and the Apache peoples. The wars began in the 1600s with the arrival of Spanish colonists in present-day New Mexico .
Apache, an Indigenous North American group which, under such leaders as Cochise, Mangas Coloradas, Geronimo, and Victorio, figured largely in the history of the Southwest during the latter half of the 19th century. The Apache name is probably derived from a Spanish transliteration of ápachu, the term for “enemy” in Zuñi.
11 cze 2018 · Forced by the Comanches into present-day Oklahoma, Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona, the Apaches alternately attacked and traded with the Pueblos. By the mid-seventeenth century Apaches had successfully raided the Spaniards' jealously guarded horse herds.
4 mar 2011 · The Apache Wars concluded with Geronimo’s surrender in 1886. Persuaded by Apache scouts working for the US Army, Geronimo finally surrendered to General Nelson A. Miles. This event marked the end of major Native American military resistance in the United States.
The first conflicts of the Apache Wars began during the Mexican-American War, beginning when American troops erroneously accused Cochise and his tribe of kidnapping a young boy during a raid.
