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Bonneville Expedition (1857)

Bonneville Expedition
Part of the Apache Wars

General Benjamin Bonneveille, circa 1861.
DateMay - July 1857
Location
Result United States victory
Belligerents
 United States Apache
Commanders and leaders
United States Benjamin Bonneville Black Knife 
Strength
~800 unknown
Casualties and losses
2 killed
7 wounded
~50 killed or wounded
54 captured
Richard Ewell during the American Civil War

The Bonneville Expedition was a military operation launched by the United States Army in 1857 at the beginning of the Chiricahua Apache Wars. Colonel Benjamin Bonneville, Lieutenant Colonel Dixon S. Miles, and Colonel William W. Loring commanded parties which headed west from Fort Fillmore, New Mexico Territory. The expedition quickly engaged Apaches in two small but significant battles, the first in the Black Range and the second along the Gila River near present-day Safford, Arizona.[1]

  1. ^ Michno, pg. 53-56