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As the U.S. pioneers acquired lands in the Southwest, the volume of Apache incursions into sparsely populated northern Mexico increased exponentially, Bands led by the famous Cochise, and his successors Victorio and Ju, caused the death of over 15,000 Mexicans in the northern territories.
Mexico's Lincoln: The ecstasy and agony of Benito Juarez 2008
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As the U.S. pioneers acquired lands in the Southwest, the volume of Apache incursions into sparsely populated northern Mexico increased exponentially, Bands led by the famous Cochise, and his successors Victorio and Ju, caused the death of over 15,000 Mexicans in the northern territories.
Mexico's Lincoln: The ecstasy and agony of Benito Juarez 2008
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As the U.S. pioneers acquired lands in the Southwest, the volume of Apache incursions into sparsely populated northern Mexico increased exponentially, Bands led by the famous Cochise, and his successors Victorio and Ju, caused the death of over 15,000 Mexicans in the northern territories.
Mexico's Lincoln: The ecstasy and agony of Benito Juarez 2008
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“The warrior Victorio, one of the greatest Apache military strategists of all time, dies this day, in 1880, in the Tres Castillos Mountains south of El Paso, Texas.”
Numbers Steve Perry 2010
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Under new chiefs—Victorio and Nana of the Warm Springs band, Nachez who was second son of the great Cochise and Chato of the Chiricahuas—they terrorized New Mexico and Arizona.
THE AMERICAN WEST DEE BROWN 2007
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This makes me nervous also by Victorio on Monday, May 28, 2007 at 9: 15: 34 PM
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Victorio (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 1 comments) on Monday, May 28, 2007 at 9: 15: 34 PM
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They marched over the same type of rugged cactus-studded desert country where an earlier generation of Western cavalrymen had pursued the Apaches Geronimo, Cochise, and Victorio.
THE AMERICAN WEST DEE BROWN 2007
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At Hembrillo, two companies of the Ninth Cavalry pursuing the Apache war chief Victorio had been surrounded by a superior force of 150 Chiricahua and Mescalero Apache.
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It is now possible to walk the ground the Buffalo Soldiers held, and look out on the basin from the ridges Victorio defended.
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