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. War between the Mexicans and the Apache was especially intense from 1831 into the 1850s.

After the Mexican–American War in 1846, the United States annexed conflicted territory from Mexico which was the home of both settlers and Apache tribes. Conflicts continued as American settlers came into traditional Apache lands to raise livestock and crops and to mine minerals.

2025年3月4日 · Eventually, the Apache war against Mexico faded – not because they were defeated, but because the Americans became the bigger threat. By the 1880s, the U.S. military had taken over the fight, and the Apache had little choice but to surrender. Even then, Geronimo never forgave Mexico.

2024年5月26日 · The conflict between Spanish and Mexican officials and various Apache tribes, known as the Apache-Mexico Wars, started in the 17th Century when colonists from New Spain established settlements in New Mexico.

2023年9月28日 · Not seen as a single war, these conflicts are instead a seemingly endless array of skirmishes, slaughters, and atrocities—among them, the series of armed battles which took place between roughly 1846 and 1886, often known as the Apache Wars.

2022年1月16日 · During the height of the Apache resistance an important historical event took place that would change the course of the Apache’s ongoing war with Mexico. The Mexican-American War began in 1846 and by 1848 a large part …

2024年10月16日 · The Apache Wars were caused by territorial disputes following the U.S. annexation of land from Mexico after the Mexican-American War (1846-1848). As American settlers moved into traditional Apache lands in what is now Arizona, New Mexico, and parts of Texas, tensions escalated.

2018年6月11日 · While Crook and the Apache scouts waged war in Arizona, American troops invaded Mexico in 1873 to punish the Lipan raiders. The survivors were deported to the Mescalero reservation. In 1875 the Kiowa Apaches agreed to a reservation in Oklahoma, ending the Apache menace on the southern Plains.

2016年2月1日 · The first conflicts between the Apache date to the earliest Spanish settlements, but the specific set of conflicts now known as the Apache Wars began during the Mexican-American War. The first United States Army campaigns specifically against the Apache began in 1849, and the last major battle ended with the surrender of Geronimo in 1886.

The Battle of Tres Castillos, October 14–15, 1880, in Chihuahua State, Mexico resulted in the death of the Chiricahua Apache chieftain Victorio and the death or capture of most of his followers. The battle ended Victorio's War, a 14-month long odyssey of fight and flight by the Apaches in southern New Mexico, western Texas, and Chihuahua.