MCCCD Official Course Competencies:

HIS135  1994 Fall – 2010 Spring

Military History of the Southwest

1.

Describe the major military aspects-purposes of raiding and warfare, organization, leadership, weapons, strategy and tactics, etc., of the Indians of the Southwest, especially the Apache and the Comanche. (I)

2.

Identify the causes, events, and results of the Apache-Comanche War. (I)

3.

Describe the principal methods used by the Spanish to pacify hostile Indians. (I)

4.

Identify the major causes, events, figures, and results of the Spanish-Apache Wars and the Spanish-Comanche Wars. (I)

5.

Describe the recruitment, training, daily life, weapons and equipment, organization, and effectiveness of the Spanish frontier forces. (I)

6.

Describe the purposes, evolution, and effectiveness of the presidio system. (I)

7.

Identify and locate on a map the principal presidios. (I)

8.

Describe the Spanish use of auxiliary forces in the campaigns against hostile Indians. (I)

9.

Explain the Spanish policy for dealing with captured Indians. (I)

10.

Identify the major factors weakening Spanish control of the frontier after 1810. (I)

11.

Describe the military aspects of the transition from Spanish to Mexican authority. (II)

12.

Describe the causes, events, figures, and results of the Mexican- Apache Wars and the Mexican-Comanche Wars. (II)

13.

Describe the impact of the Indian wars on Mexico's northern frontier. (II)

14.

Describe the major causes, events, figures, and results of the Texas War for Independence. (II)

15.

Describe the major causes, events, figures, and results of the Texas- Comanche War. (II)

16.

Describe the causes of the Mexican War. (II)

17.

Describe the Mexican and American armies on the eve of the Mexican War. (II)

18.

Describe the strategy, major campaigns, events, figures, and results of the northern phase of the Mexican War. (II)

19.

Describe the American campaign to capture Mexico City. (II)

20.

Describe the peace treaty ending the Mexican War and the place of the war in the history of Mexico and the United States. (II)

21.

Describe the Texas war effort in the Civil War. (II)

22.

Describe the major campaigns, events, figures, and results of the Civil War in New Mexico and Arizona. (II)

23.

Describe the recruitment, organization, training, weapons and equipment, daily life, and effectiveness of US Army soldiers in the late 19th Century. (III)

24.

Describe the US Army's strategy for pacifying hostile Indians. (III)

25.

Identify and locate on a map the principal US Army forts in Arizona in the 1870s and 1880s. (III)

26.

Describe American-Navajo relations in the period 1846-1868. (III)

27.

Describe the major causes, events, figures, and results of the Navajo War of the 1860s. (III)

28.

Describe the major causes, events, figures, and results of the American-Comanche War of the 1860s and 1870s. (III)

29.

Describe the major causes, events, figures, and results of the American-Apache Wars in New Mexico. (III)

30.

Describe the major causes, events, figures, and results of American- Apache Wars in Arizona. (III)

31.

Describe George Crook's campaign to pacify the Apaches in the 1870s. (III)

32.

Describe military-civilian relations in the Southwest. (III)

33.

Describe the impact of the military on the economic development of the Southwest. (III)

34.

Describe the major events, figures, and results of the Geronimo campaigns of the 1880s. (III)

35.

Describe the Mexico of Porfirio Diaz. (IV)

36.

Describe the major events and figures of the Mexican Revolution from 1910 to 1920. (IV)

37.

Describe American-Mexican relations in the period 1910-1920. (IV)

38.

Describe the causes, events, figures, and results of the American military interventions in Mexico. (IV)

39.

Describe the impact of the Mexican border campaigns upon the US Army. (IV)

MCCCD Official Course Outline:

HIS135  1994 Fall – 2010 Spring

Military History of the Southwest

I. The Spanish occupation

A. Military aspects of the Indians of the Southwest

B. The defense of northern new Spain

C. Lancers for the King

D. Presidios

E. Auxiliaries

F. Failed empire

II. Changing of the guard

A. The Mexican occupation

B. Military aspects of the Long Star Republic

C. The Mexican War: causes and order of battle

D. The Mexican War: the war in northern Mexico

E. The Mexican War: on to Mexico City

F. The Civil War in the Southwest

III. The United States army and the Indians of the Southwest

A. Frontiersmen in blue

B. The Navajo confronted and confined

C. The conquest of the southern plains

D. The conquest of Apacheria: to 1881

E. The conquest of Apacheria: the Geronimo campaigns

IV. Blood on the border

A. The United States and the Mexican revolution

B. Manhunt in Chihuahua

C. Final battles