The Apache Wars were fought during the nineteenth century between American settlers, the U.S. and or Confederate States Army and many Apache tribes in what is now the southwestern United States.
The conflicts lasted from 1851, with the arrival of American settlers, to 1886, the year Geronimo surrendered. However, Apache (known by themselves as T`Inde, Inde, N`de, N`ne = "people") attacks on white and Mexican settlers continued as late as 1900.
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The Apache Wars were fought during the nineteenth century between American settlers, the U.S. and or Confederate States Army and many Apache tribes in what is now the southwestern United States.
The conflicts lasted from 1851, with the arrival of American settlers, to 1886, the year Geronimo surrendered. However, Apache (known by themselves as T`Inde, Inde, N`de, N`ne = "people") attacks on white and Mexican settlers continued as late as 1900.
In the early years of the wars, the Apache war battles were often the result of stolen property and massacres of whites and Mexicans. This period; roughly from 1851 to 1875. The latter period from 1875 to 1886, the United States engaged Apaches in order to settle them on reservations or to keep them from escaping the reservations. With the capture of Geronimo in 1886, the period then on to 1900 was a time of small skirmishes between white settlers and little packs of Apaches who evaded the U.S. Army's reservations. A lot of the time, individual...
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