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Victorio (Bidu-ya, Beduiat; ca. 1825–October 14, 1880) was a warrior and chief of the Warm Springs band of the Tchihendeh (or Chihenne, often called Mimbreño) division of the central Apaches in what is now the American states of Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, and the Mexican states of Sonora and Chihuahua.
- Killed by Mexican soldiers during the Battle of Tres Castillos
Sep 3, 2008 · Together Victorio and Nana hurried back to Ojo Caliente. On September 4, 1879, Victorio and about forty warriors launched their war. They swept down on the horse herd of Capt. Ambrose Hooker’s Troop E, 9th Cavalry, at Ojo Caliente; killed the eight herders; and made off with all forty-six horses.
May 29, 2018 · Victorio (c. 1820–1880) was an Apache warrior known as an intelligent and feared fighter. He proved his military cunning by leading small groups of warriors—often consisting of no more than 35 to 50 fighters—in triumphant resistance to American and Mexican troops.
Nov 16, 2009 · Learn about Victorio, one of the greatest Apache military strategists of all time, who resisted the loss of his homeland and raided Mexican and American settlers. Find out how he died in 1880 and why he became a martyr to the Apache people.
Victorio ' s War, or the Victorio Campaign, was an armed conflict between the Apache followers of Chief Victorio, the United States, and Mexico beginning in September 1879. Faced with arrest and forcible relocation from his homeland in New Mexico to San Carlos Indian Reservation in southeastern Arizona , Victorio led a guerrilla war across ...
- 1879–1880
- Southwest United States, Northwestern Mexico
- Joint Mexico–U.S. victory
Feb 9, 2019 · Victorio (ca. 1825–1880). Victorio, an Apache war chief, was probably born in the Black Range of New Mexico around 1825 and reared as a member of the Eastern Chiricahua Apaches, often referred to as the Warm Springs or Mimbreño Apaches. Little is known of his early life. Legends that prevailed in northern Mexico throughout the latter ...
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By the 1870s he had joined Victorio on the Apache reservation at Warm Springs, New Mexico, but in about 1877 they and their followers were moved by the U.S. government to an inhospitable reservation at San Carlos, Ariz. Victorio and many members of his…
