Tiguex War

Tiguex War
Part of Expedition of Francisco Vázquez de Coronado
Coronado's march - Colorado by Frederic Remington shows the march of Coronado east from Tiguex Province to the Great Plains
Date December 1540 – March 1541 (4 months) Location Tiguex Province, Viceroyalty of New Spain (present-day Bernalillo, NM) 35°18′34″N 106°33′07″W / 35.309444°N 106.551944°W / 35.309444; -106.551944 Result Spanish victory Destruction of the Tiwa villages Southern Tiwan peoples move out of the Middle Rio Grande Valley and into defensive mountain settlements
Belligerents
12 Southern Tiwa Puebloans	Expedition of Francisco Vázquez de Coronado
Commanders and leaders
Xauían †	Francisco Vázquez de Coronado García López de Cárdenas
Strength
50 or so men per village	350 Spanish men-at-arms 2,000 Mexican Indian allies 350 servants and followers
Casualties and losses
Hundreds killed, executed, or wounded	Small number of Spanish and Mexican fighters killed Over 100 wounded
Tiwan women and children who survived were enslaved by the expedition

The Tiguex War was the first named war between Europeans and Native Americans in what is now part of the United States. The war took place in New Spain, during the colonization of Nuevo México. It was fought in the winter of 1540–41 by the expedition of Francisco Vázquez de Coronado against the twelve or thirteen Pueblos or settlements of what would become the Tiguex Province of Nuevo México. These villages were along both sides of the Rio Grande, north and south of present-day Bernalillo, New Mexico.^[1]