Bear Valley USA (id:#66412)

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Bear Valley, Arizona 1918-01-09 (0 others)

Overview:

The battle of Bear Valley was a small engagement fought in 1918 between a band of Yaquis and a detachment of United States Army soldiers. On 9 January, 1918, elements of the American 10th Cavalry Regiment detected about thirty armed Yaquis in Bear Valley, Arizona, a large area that was commonly used as a passage across the international border with Mexico. The Americans returned fire and a typical Indian war skirmish began. Though the conflict was merely a skirmish, it was the last time the United States Army engaged hostile Native American Indians in combat and thus has been seen as one of the final battles of the American Indian Wars.

Defender: Native American (Yaquis Warriors)  

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