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American Indian Wars. The American Indian Wars, also known as the American Frontier Wars, and the Indian Wars, [note 2] was a conflict initially fought by European colonial empires, United States of America, and briefly the Confederate States of America and Republic of Texas against various American Indian tribes in North America.
15 killed. 11 wounded. 8 killed. 12 wounded. The Lincoln County War was an Old West conflict between rival factions which began in 1878 in Lincoln County, New Mexico Territory, the predecessor of the state of New Mexico, and continued until 1881. [1] The feud became famous because of the participation of William H. Bonney ("Billy the Kid").
The San Elizario Salt War, also known as the Salinero Revolt or the El Paso Salt War, was an extended and complex range war of the mid-19th century that revolved around the ownership and control of immense salt lakes at the base of the Guadalupe Mountains in West Texas. What began in 1866 as a political and legal struggle among Anglo Texan ...
Charlie Bowdre, a member of Billy the Kid's gang, is shot and killed by members of Pat Garrett's posse at Stinking Springs, New Mexico. Dec 24: Abran Baca kills A.M. Conklin in Socorro, New Mexico with several other outlaws, though he is acquitted the following year. 1881: Feb 5: The city of Phoenix is incorporated in the Arizona Territory. Apr 14
The Battle of Lincoln, New Mexico, so-called Five-Day Battle or Five-Day Siege, [1][2] was a five-day-long firefight between the Murphy-Dolan Faction and the Regulators that took place between July 15–19, 1878, in Lincoln, New Mexico. [3][4] It was the largest armed battle of the Lincoln County War in the New Mexico Territory.
The Mexican–American War, [ a ] also known in the United States as the Mexican War, and in Mexico as the United States intervention in Mexico, [ b ] was an invasion of Mexico by the United States Army from 1846 to 1848. It followed the 1845 American annexation of Texas, which Mexico still considered its territory because it refused to ...
New Mexico Territory. The Territory of New Mexico was an organized incorporated territory of the United States from September 9, 1850, [1] until January 6, 1912. [2] It was created from the U.S. provisional government of New Mexico, as a result of Nuevo México becoming part of the American frontier after the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo.
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