Apache Wars
At a glance:
- Series: Magill’s Guide to Military History
- Categories: Military History, Land Acquisition and Expansion, Territory Redistribution
- Subcategories: Wars, Battles, Native Americans, American Indians, Frontier, Pioneers
- Curriculum: American Civil War & Reconstruction Era (1856-1877), American History 1878-1900, American Indian History
- Geographical Location: Arizona
- Date: 1860-1886
Article abstract: At issue: United States and Anglo-American settlement in Arizona and New Mexico. Result: United States victory; end of the American Indian wars.
Background
Apache tribes had long existed in the southwestern United States in what later became New Mexico, Arizona, and Colorado. The Spanish, and later the Mexicans, struggled with the Apache. Mexico had never been able to control the Apache. The United States inherited the Apache when it acquired the southwestern portion of the United States in the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo (1848), which...
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