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Show ee wounded, finally fell, shot through the heart. The remainder of his band now surrendered. In addition to the warriors who fell in this battle, eighteen women and children shared the same fate. This war was the result of the greed of the settler and the corrupt policy of the government in the management of Indian affairs in the south- west. If Victorio had been permitted to remain at the Ojo Caliente reservation it is more than likely that the terrible devastation lowing his removal to San Carlos would never have occurred. fol- 860 On July 29th, 1882, a treaty was effected with the Republic of Mexico by virtue of the provisions of which the Apaches might be pursued across our southeren spectively. boundary and vice versa, by American and Mexican troops Te “VY PoljTy ‘UBUlOOL,] “O68L Svorsne CG ° JO oY} [PUUIBS °O outatdng “SYLCT “SLST 11N01) JO MPA “€ Victorio had with MONT lake located in the vicinity of the Tres Castillos. him about a hundred warriors, four hundred women and children, and many horses and other animals and much booty. The Mexicans soon surrounded the Indians, who sought shelter in the rocks of the canyons. The battle began in the evening and continued during the entire night. At early dawn Victorio was seen on the summit of one of the crags of the Tres Castillos, basaltic hills which rose directly from the plain. For an hour after day-break the firing continued when suddenly the Indians ceased. Their ammunition was eXhausted. The Mexicans now charged them with great bravery, the Indians falling beneath a pitiless fire. Victorio, several times B he proposed to again invade the territory. In 1883 the American forces which had been codperating with the Mexican separated, and while the troops of our sister republic were returning through Chihuahua they discovered the Apaches under Victorio encamped near a pi General Grierson with the 10th cavalry on the east, were only able by the most severe fighting to drive him into Mexico at a time when Se 1 his soldier pursuers, he would suddenly appear in some unexpected quarter. He outwitted two generals of the American army and one in command of the Mexican *°° forces. He captured from the governor of Chihuahua, in one campaign, over five hundred horses. He and his warriors killed over two hundred New Mexicans, more than one hundred soldiers and two hundred citizens of the Mexican republic. At one time the armies of both countries combined to destroy him, but he made his escape. On another occasion Colonel Buel, with one thousand cavalry and three hundred Indian scouts, pressing him on the north, Colonel Carr with six hundred cavalry on the west and of HISTORY N MEXICAN OoIXOTT NEW @) vo OF Cc FACTS 8 LEADING ‘O68T 440 ae |
