Editing Apache Wars (section)

===Victorio's War===
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In 1879, the veteran Chiricahua war chief [[Victorio]] and his followers were facing forced removal from their homeland and reservation at [[Ojo Caliente, New Mexico]] and transfer to San Carlos Apache Indian Reservation in Arizona. On August 21, 1879, Victorio, 80 warriors, and their women and children fled the reservation. Victorio was joined by other Apache, especially Mescalero, and his force may have reached a maximum of 200 warriors, an unusually large force of Apache.<ref>Gott, pp. 17-39.</ref>

For 14 months, Victorio led a [[Guerrilla warfare|guerrilla war]] against the U.S. Army and white settlers in southern New Mexico, western Texas, and northern Mexico. He fought more than a dozen battles and skirmishes with the U.S. Army and raided several civilian settlements. Several thousand American and Mexican soldiers and Indian scouts pursued him, as he fled from one stronghold to another.  Victorio and many of his followers met their end on October 14, 1880, when they were surrounded and killed by Mexican soldiers at the [[Battle of Tres Castillos]] in [[Chihuahua (state)|Chihuahua]], Mexico.<ref>Gott, pp. 40–42</ref> A lieutenant of Victorio's, [[Nana (chief)|Nana]], continued the war. With fewer than 40 warriors Nana raided extensively in New Mexico from June to August 1881. Nana survived the raid and died of old age in 1896.<ref>Wellman, pp. 195–205</ref>