Significant1540 – 1542 · 2 years

Mixtón War

Name: War Atlas: Named Conflicts and Empire Borders, 3000 BCE – Present
Creator: War Atlas
Keywords: wars, military history, conflicts, empires, historical atlas, casualties

Nueva Galicia · Mexico

Estimated casualties

Casualty figures unrecorded for this conflict.

Rebellion of Mixtón and neighboring peoples in northern Mexico against Spanish colonial rule. Spanish response was brutal; this conflict delayed further Spanish expansion northward.

Belligerents2

Spanish Empire
Mixtón peoples

ON THE MAPSpanish Empire (Americas)

Sources

Wikipedia — text reused under CC BY-SA 4.0

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Cite as: Mixtón War (1540 – 1542). War Atlas. https://waratlas.org/c/americas-mixtec-war-1540 · Sources & methodology