Significant1520 – 1600 · 80 years
Spanish Conquest of Northern Mexico
Northern Mexico
Estimated casualties
Casualty figures unrecorded for this conflict.
Spanish expansion into northern Mexico against fierce indigenous resistance. Slow and difficult conquest of nomadic and semi-nomadic peoples.
Belligerents2
- Spanish Empire
- Northern peoples
ON THE MAPSpanish Empire (Americas)
Sources
- Wikipedia — text reused under CC BY-SA 4.0
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Cite as: Spanish Conquest of Northern Mexico (1520 – 1600). War Atlas. https://waratlas.org/c/americas-conquest-northern-frontier-mexico-1520 · Sources & methodology