Military campaign during the Spanish exploration of the Americas
This article is about a military conflict that occurred in the historic Tiguex Province, Nuevo México, New Spain. For the modern Tiguex region, see Albuquerque metropolitan area. For other uses, see Tiguex.
Tiguex War
Part of Expedition of Francisco Vázquez de Coronado
Coronado's march - Colorado by Frederic Remington shows the march of Coronado east from Tiguex Province to the Great Plains
Date
December 1540 – March 1541
(4 months)
Location
Tiguex Province, Viceroyalty of New Spain (present-day Bernalillo, NM)
Southern Tiwan peoples move out of the Middle Rio Grande Valley and into defensive mountain settlements
Belligerents
12 Southern Tiwa Pueblos
Expedition of Francisco Vázquez de Coronado
Commanders and leaders
Xauían †
Francisco Vázquez de Coronado García López de Cárdenas
Strength
50 or so men per village
350 Spanish men-at-arms
2,000 Mexican Indian allies
350 servants and followers
Casualties and losses
Hundreds killed, executed, or wounded
Small number of Spanish and Mexican fighters killed
Over 100 wounded
Tiwan women and children who survived were enslaved by the expedition
The Tiguex War was the first named war between Europeans and Native Americans in what is now part of the United States. The war took place in New Spain, during the colonization of Nuevo México. It was fought in the winter of 1540-41 by the expedition of Francisco Vázquez de Coronado against the twelve or thirteen Pueblos of what would become the Tiguex Province of Nuevo México. These villages were along both sides of the Rio Grande, north and south of present-day Bernalillo, New Mexico.[1]
^Bullis, Don (February 17, 2022). "Ellos Pasaron por Aqui: 1st war between Native Americans, Europeans took place near RR". Rio Rancho Observer. Retrieved June 30, 2022.
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