Bonneville Expedition (1857)

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Bonneville Expedition
Part of the Apache Wars
General Benjamin Bonneveille, circa 1861.
Date May - July 1857 Location New Mexico and Arizona Result United States victory
Belligerents
United States	Apache
Commanders and leaders
Benjamin Bonneville	Black Knife †
Strength
~800	unknown
Casualties and losses
2 killed 7 wounded	~50 killed or wounded 54 captured

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]