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Battle of Bear Valley | |||||||
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Part of the Yaqui Wars, American Indian Wars | |||||||
10th Cavalry soldiers holding Yaqui prisoners at their camp in Bear Valley, January 9, 1918. | |||||||
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Belligerents | |||||||
United States | Yaqui | ||||||
Commanders and leaders | |||||||
Frederick H.L. Ryder | unknown | ||||||
Strength | |||||||
~30 light cavalry | ~30 warriors | ||||||
Casualties and losses | |||||||
none |
1 killed 9 captured |
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 January 9, 1918, elements of the American 10th Cavalry Regiment detected about thirty armed Yaquis in Bear Valley, west of Nogales, Arizona, a large area that was commonly used as a passage across the international border with Mexico. A short firefight ensued, which resulted in the death of the Yaqui commander and the capture of nine others. Though the conflict was merely a skirmish, it was the last time the United States Army and Native Americans engaged in combat and thus has been seen as the final official battle of the American Indian Wars.[1][2]
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