Военная история / A Bad Peace and a Good War: Spain and the Mescalero Apache Uprising of 1795–1799

Название: A Bad Peace and a Good War: Spain and the Mescalero Apache Uprising of 1795–1799
Автор: Mark Santiago
Издательство: University of Oklahoma Press
Год: 2018
Страниц: 265
Язык: English
Формат: True PDF
Размер: 29 MB

This book challenges long-accepted historical orthodoxy about relations between the Spanish and the Indians in the borderlands separating what are now Mexico and the United States. While most scholars describe the decades after 1790 as a period of relative peace between the occupying Spaniards and the Apaches, Mark Santiago sees in the Mescalero Apache attacks on the Spanish beginning in 1795 a sustained, widespread, and bloody conflict. He argues that Commandant General Pedro de Nava’s coordinated campaigns against the Mescaleros were the culmination of the Spanish military’s efforts to contain Apache aggression, constituting one of its largest and most sustained operations in northern New Spain. A Bad Peace and a Good War examines the antecedents, tactics, and consequences of the fighting.