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Mexican teamsters. After torturing and killing the nine Mexicans, he took the three Americans hostage, offering them in exchange for his family, but Bascom maintained that he would accept nothing other than the return of the boy and cattle. On February 7, Cochise and his men attacked Bascom's soldiers while they were fetching water.
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to meet with him. Suspicious of Bascom's intentions, Cochise brought with him his brother
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that is chronologically for the earliest action, to
Bernard J.D. Irwin; despite the medal being created during the Civil War, ex-post-facto awards for action taken before the medals creation were authorized.
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Mexicans to the Americans. Cochise's subsequent war of vengeance, in the form of numerous raids and murders, was the beginning of the 25-year-long
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The Wrath of Cochise: The Bascom Affair and the Origins of the Apache Wars
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