Cochise
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- Series: Magill’s Guide to Military History
- Categories: Military History
- Subcategories: Generals, Military Officers, Soldiers, Native Americans, American Indians, Revolutions, Rebellions, Uprisings, Riots, Frontier, Pioneers
- Curriculum: American History 1816-1855, American Civil War & Reconstruction Era (1856-1877), American Indian History
Article abstract: Military significance: Cochise’s life revolved around raiding and warfare in the American Southwest and Mexico. From 1861 to 1872, he led the Chiricahua Apaches in a guerrilla war—sometimes called Cochise’s War—against Mexican and American settlements and military troops.
Cochise was the son of a Chiricahua Apache band leader. He undoubtedly participated in the raiding, pilfering, and murder that took place between the Apache and Mexicans after 1830. He probably served as a subchief under his father-in-law Mangas Coloradas, and by the...
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