The Second Magdalena Massacre was an attack by Apaches

Apache

Apache is the collective term for several culturally related groups of Native Americans in the United States originally from the Southwest United States. These indigenous peoples of North America speak a Southern Athabaskan language, which is related linguistically to the languages of Athabaskan...

 against the Spanish

Spain

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 mission village of Magdalena de Kino

Magdalena de Kino

Magdalena de Kino is a city and surrounding municipality located in the Mexican state of Sonora covering approximately 560 square miles . According to the 2005 census, the city's population was 23,101, and the municipality's population was 25,500. Magdalena de Kino is in the northern section of...

, in the present day northern Mexico

Mexico

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. The attack occurred sometime in mid November 1776, most or all of Magdalena de Kino's inhabitants were killed so an exact date will never be known.

Massacre

It was the second massacre on the town, in November 1757, Seri natives attacked and killed thirty-one civilians. Captain Francisco Ignacio de Trespalacios, who replaced the fallen commander, Francisco Tovar, after the First Battle of Terrenate

First Battle of Terrenate

The First Battle of Terrenate in July, 1776 was a military engagement during the Spanish period of Arizona. It was fought between Spanish soldiers and Apache warriors, near the Presidio Santa Cruz de Terrenate in the present day southern Arizona....

, discovered the massacred colonists during a campaign from Presidio Santa Cruz de Terrenate

Presidio Santa Cruz de Terrenate

The Presidio Santa Cruz de Terrenate, or Fort Terrenate, among several other names, is a former Spanish military presidio, or fortress, located roughly west of the town of Tombstone, Arizona in the United States of America.- History :...

 with eighty-three cavalry

Cavalry

Cavalry or horsemen were soldiers or warriors who fought mounted on horseback. Cavalry were historically the third oldest and the most mobile of the combat arms...

 men. The Spanish Army

Spanish Army

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 found that around forty Apaches had looted the settlement, murdered the inhabitants and burned the church.

See also

• Spanish period of Arizona
  Spanish period of Arizona
  In the late 18th century, colonists began steadily entering the region of northern New Spain that is the modern-day U.S. state of Arizona. They were attracted by reports of the discovery of deposits of silver around the Arizonac mining camp...
  
  
• Capture of Tucson (1846)
  Capture of Tucson (1846)
  The Capture of Tucson was a United States attack on the Mexican city of Tucson, Sonora, now the present day Tucson, Arizona. The would be combatants were provisional Mexican Army troops and the American Mormon Battalion. Tucson fell in December of 1846 without resistance.-Capture:The...
  
  
• Capture of Tucson (1862)
  Capture of Tucson (1862)
  The Capture of Tucson was a United States attack on Tucson in Confederate Arizona on May 20, 1862. A Union force of 2,000 took the city from ten Tucson militiamen without a shot fired.-Background:...
  
  
• American Indian Wars
• Apache Wars
  Apache Wars
  The Apache Wars were a series of armed conflicts between the United States and Apaches fought in the Southwest from 1849 to 1886, though other minor hostilities continued until as late as 1924. The Confederate Army participated in the wars during the early 1860s, for instance in Texas, before being...
  
  
• Navajo Wars
  Navajo Wars
  The Navajo Wars were a series of battles and other conflicts, often separated with treaties that involved raids by different Navajo bands on the rancheras along the Rio Grande and the counter campaigns by the Spanish, Mexican, and United States governments, and sometimes their civilian elements....