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- Title
"An Exodus to Nowhere"?: Victorio's Tres Castillos Campaign, September-October 1880.
- Authors
Watt, Robert N.
- Abstract
The 14-15 October 1880 battle of Tres Castillos in the state of Chihuahua, Mexico, brought a dramatic end to the career of Victorio, one of the greatest military leaders of the Apache peoples of the American Southwest and northern Mexico. This article contends that Victorio's defeat and death at the hands of Mexican troops at Tres Castillos did not come at the end of aimless wandering in the desert, as has been alleged. It marked, instead, the conclusion of a campaign that epitomized the distinctive strategies and tactics which characterized the Apache way of guerrilla warfare and that are worthy of continued study today.
- Subjects
CHIHUAHUA (Mexico : State); VICTORIO, Apache Chief, d. 1881; BATTLE of Tres Castillos, Mexico, 1880; 19TH century Mexican military history; APACHE (North American people) -- Wars; HISTORY of the United States Army -- 19th century; WARS of indigenous peoples of Mexico; NINETEENTH century; HISTORY
- Publication
Journal of Military History, 2016, Vol 80, Issue 4, p1037
- ISSN
0899-3718
- Publication type
Article