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Apache
Apache (pronounced /əˈpætʃiː/) is the collective term for several culturally related groups of Native Americans in the United States originally from the American Southwest. These indigenous peoples of North America speak a Southern Athabaskan (Apachean) language, and are related linguistically to...
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Apache Wars
The Apache Wars were fought during the nineteenth century between American settlers, the U.S. and or C.S. Army and many Apache tribes in what is now the southwestern United States.
The first conflicts between Apaches (known by themselves as T`Inde,...
Battle of Apache Pass
The Battle of Apache Pass was fought at Apache Pass in Arizona, United States, between Apache warriors and the California Column as it marched from California to capture Confederate Arizona and to reinforce New Mexico's Union army.
In early 1862,...
Battle of Yellow House Canyon
The Battle of Yellow House Canyon was a battle between a group of Quahadi Comanche and Apaches and a group of bison hunters that occurred on March 18, 1877, near the site of the present-day city of Lubbock. It was the final battle of the Buffalo...
Battle of Dragoon Springs
The Battle of Dragoon Springs was a minor skirmish between a small troop of Confederate dragoons, of Governor John R. Baylor's Company A, Arizona Rangers, and an band of Apache warriors during the American Civil War. It was fought on May 5, 1862,...
Battle of Cieneguilla
The Battle of Cieneguilla (pronounced sienna-GEE-ya; English: small swamp) was an engagement fought between a group of Jicarilla Apaches and the U.S. 1st Cavalry Regiment on March 30, 1854 near what is now Pilar, New Mexico. The Santa Fe Weekly...
Battle of Turret Peak
The Battle of Turret Peak occurred March 27, 1873 in the Arizona Territory between the United States Army and a group of Yavapai and Tonto Apaches as part of Lieutenant Colonel George Crook's campaign to force the Yavapai and Apaches to reservations...
Battle of Salt River Canyon
The Battle of Salt River Canyon or Battle of Skeleton Cave was the first principal engagement during the Tonto Basin Campaign under the command of Lieutenant Colonel George Crook. Part of the American Indian Wars in the late nineteenth century.
On...
Battle of Fort Tularosa
The Battle of Fort Tularosa occurred in May 1880 in present-day Catron County, New Mexico. In an ongoing campaign to keep from being forced to live on reservations, Chiricahua Apache warriors led by Victorio attacked Fort Tularosa north of San...
Siege of Tubac
The Siege of Tubac was a siege of the Apache Wars, between settlers and militia of Confederate Arizona and Chiricahua Apaches. The battle took place at Tubac in the present day southern Arizona. The actual dates of this engagement have been lost to...
Battle of Fort Apache
The Battle of Fort Apache was an engagement of the Apache Wars between the cavalry garrison of Fort Apache and dozens of mounted White Mountain Apache warriors.
The native assault on Fort Apache, commanded by Colonel Eugene Asa Carr, was a counter...
Battle of Pinos Altos
The Battle of Pinos Altos was a military action of the Apache Wars. The combatants were; settlers of the currently abandoned Pinos Altos mining town, the Confederate Arizona Guards and Apache warriors. The town was located about five to ten miles...
Battle of Placito
The Battle of Placito or Battle of the Placito was an engagement between ethnic Mexican settlers, Confederate soldiers and Apache warriors. The battle took place at the now abandoned village of Placito in Confederate Arizona. The action is apart of...
Battle of the Mimbres River
The Battle of the Mimbres River was a surprise attack launched by a troop of American militia against an encampment of Chiricahua Apaches along the western shore of the Mimbres River. On December 4, 1860 a force of 30 armed miners attacked at...
Gallinas Massacre
The Gallinas Massacre or the Gallinas Mountains Massacre was an engagement in the Apache Wars between a war party of Chiricahua Apache warriors and four Confederate soldiers in the Gallinas Mountains of Confederate Arizona, now within the present...
Battle of the Diablo Mountains
The Battle of the Diablo Mountains was an early engagement of the Apache Wars. A small force of Mounted Rifles attacked a much larger force of Lipan Apaches at the base of the Sierra Diablo Mountains, commonly referred to as the "Diablos" in...
Battle of Cooke's Canyon
The Battle of Cooke's Canyon was an engagement of the Apache Wars, between settlers from Confederate Arizona, and Chiricahua Apaches. The battle occurred about forty miles northwest of Mesilla, in Cooke's Canyon. The exact date of the battle is...
Battle of Cibecue Creek
The Battle of Cibecue Creek was an engagement of the Apache Wars at Arizona's Cibecue Creek in August 1881. The combatants were U.S. Army soldiers and White Mountain Apaches. The incident sparked the Apache counter assault on Fort Apache the...
Battle of Ojo Caliente Canyon
The Battle of Ojo Caliente Canyon, or simply the Battle of Ojo Caliante was an engagement of the Apache Wars on April 8, 1854. The combatants were Jicarilla Apache warriors and the United States Army. The skirmish was fought as result of the pursuit...
Fourth Battle of Tucson
The Fourth Battle of Tucson was a raid of the Spanish-Apache Wars. At break of day, on March 21, 1784, a force of no more than 500 Apaches and Navajos attacked Spanish cavalry guards protecting a herd of livestock at the Presidio of San Agustín del...
Battle of the Pinal Mountains
The Battle of the Pinal Mountains was one of many small battles to occur between Apache warriors and Spanish colonists. The exact date of the battle is unknown but did happen on one day in mid June, 1788 in the Pinal Mountains of southern Arizona,...
Battle of the Catalina River
The Battle of the Catalina River was a military engagement during the Spanish conquest of the present day Arizona. The combatants were Apache and Navajo warriors, Spanish soldiers and Tucson militia. The date; March 21, 1784.
After the native raid,...
First Battle of Tucson
The First Battle of Tucson was an Apache assault on Tucson, Arizona on December 6, 1779, part of the Spanish-Apache Wars. Captain Pedro Allande y Saabedra with a force of only fifteen men defeated an army of around 350 strong.
Not much is known...
Second Battle of Tucson
The Second Battle of Tucson or May Day was an attack on Tucson, Arizona's citadel and surrounding town. The battle occurred during the Spanish-Apache Wars on May 1, 1782, between a small garrison of men fighting for the Spanish Crown and hundreds of...
Third Battle of Tucson
The Third Battle of Tucson was a battle during the Spanish colonization of Sonora, now the present day Arizona in the United States. The battle pitched the Apaches against the Spanish cavalry.
On Christmas Day 1782, native warriors attacked Tucson...
First Battle of Terrenate
The Battle of Terrenate in July, 1776 was a military confrontation during the Spanish period of Arizona. Those confronted were Spanish soldiers and Apache warriors, at the Presidio Santa Cruz de Terrenate near the present day Tombstone, Arizona.
The...
