Fourth Battle of Tucson | |||||||
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Part of the Mexican Apache Wars, Mexican Navajo Wars | |||||||
![]() Tucson's Stone Avenue in 1885. | |||||||
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Belligerents | |||||||
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Apache Navajo | ||||||
Commanders and leaders | |||||||
![]() | Chiquito | ||||||
Strength | |||||||
~20 cavalry 1 fort | ~500 warriors | ||||||
Casualties and losses | |||||||
5 killed 1 wounded | 3 killed |
The Fourth Battle of Tucson was a raid during the lengthy wars between Spanish colonists in Arizona and its region and Apache Indians. At break of day, on March 21, 1784, a force of no more than 500 Apaches and Navajos attacked Spanish cavalry guards protecting a herd of livestock at the Presidio San Augustin del Tucson in southern Arizona.