The First Magdalena massacre was an attack by
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Native Americans against the
Spanish mission village of
Magdalena de Kino, in the present day northern
Mexico. The attack occurred on November 3, 1757 and was the first of two massacres at the town. The second
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came almost exactly nineteen years later in November, 1776. Not much is known except for the deaths of thirty-one men, women and children, as well as
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See also
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Capture of Tucson (1846)
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Capture of Tucson (1862)
Union forces entered Tucson on May 20, 1862, with a force of 2,000 men without firing a shot.
Background
Just prior to the American Civil War in the late 1850s, the cities of Tucson and Mesilla in southern New Mexico Territory petitioned the ...
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American Indian Wars
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Apache Wars
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Navajo Wars
References
# Bancroft, Hubert Howe, 1888, ''History of Arizona and New Mexico, 1530–1888.'' The History Company, San Francisco.
# Cooper, Evelyn S., 1995, ''Tucson in Focus: The Buehman Studio.'' Arizona Historical Society, Tucson. ().
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Dobyns, Henry F., 1976, ''Spanish Colonial Tucson.'' University of Arizona Press, Tucson. ().
# Drachman, Roy P., 1999, ''From Cowtown to Desert Metropolis: Ninety Years of Arizona Memories.'' Whitewing Press, San Francisco. .
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History of Mexico
1750s in New Spain
Conflicts in 1757
1757 in North America