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were ordered east. To prevent it from being used by
Confederate soldiers, Fort Buchanan was burned. Camp Lowell, near Tucson, was abandoned. Thinking they had defeated the Americans, the Apaches scavenged the abandoned forts and increased raiding in the Santa Cruz Valley. Almost every mine, ranch,
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to the new site on the bluffs above it to the east. A church report in 1772 described the mission as having a population 64: 21 men, 24 women and 19 children. It described the location as being on an open plain with good lands, but that the
Indians do little or no farming, and that there was no
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communities during 1776. The mission O’odham killed fourteen of the raiders, but lost seven of their own. The
Mission was abandoned in 1786 when the last of the O'odham left because of continuing hostilities by the Apaches.
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occupied the post until they were relieved by troops of the United States Army in May 1866. Due to persistent malaria, the
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