What the records say
- When
- 1540
- Kind
- Battle
- Coordinates
- 35.31° N, 106.55° W
- Description
- military campaign during the Spanish colonization of the Americas
Placed at the area, not an exact site.
Tiguex War
Military campaign during the Spanish exploration of the Americas
The Tiguex War (Tee-wesh) 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 and native Mexican Indian allies against the twelve or thirteen pueblos or settlements of what would become the Tiguex Provin…
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