Confederation · approximate1500 – 1886 · 386 years

Apache Confederacy

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

Overview

The Apache are several Southern Athabaskan language-speaking peoples of the Southwest, the Southern Plains and Northern Mexico. They are linguistically related to the Navajo. They migrated from the Athabascan homelands in the north into the Southwest between 1000 and 1500 CE.

Wikipedia: Apache·CC BY-SA 4.0

Borders & accuracy

Confederation

A confederation of independent groups; member territories shifted and overlapped, so the perimeter is approximate.

SOURCEaourednik / historical-basemaps
DETAILhistorical-basemaps:1500:Apache (extended north for Plains Apache)
SNAPSHOT1700
MATCHEDApache (extended north for Plains Apache)
POLITY TYPEconfederation

Wars of this empire18

Conflicts whose belligerents name this polity, best-documented first.

Comanche-Apache Conflicts1700–1880
Regional · 40K dead
Battle of Canon de Ugalde1790
Regional
Battle of Diablo Mountains1854
Regional
Battle of Rio Caliente1854
Regional
Battle of Canyon of the Dead Sheep1857
Regional
Battle of Gila River1857
Regional
Battle of Pinos Altos1861
Regional
Battle of Apache Pass1862
Regional
Battle of Rattlesnake Springs1880
Regional
Battle of Big Dry Wash1882
Regional
Battle of Arizpe1852
Minor
Battle of Cieneguilla1854
Minor
Battle of Bloody Tanks1864
Minor
Battle of Chiricahua Pass1869
Minor
Battle of Skeleton Cave1872
Minor
Battle of Turret Butte1873
Minor
Battle of Tinaja las Palmas1880
Minor
Battle of Cibecue Creek1881
Minor

Open in the atlas →Seeks the timeline to 1500 and fits the map to these borders.

Cite as: Apache Confederacy (1500 – 1886). War Atlas. https://waratlas.org/e/americas-apache-confederacy · Sources & methodology