The Mexican War and the 1850s Frontier

Pacific Northwest Indian Wars

The wars of the Oregon and Washington country in the mid-1850s: the Cayuse, Rogue River, Yakima and Puget Sound wars, and the Coeur d'Alene campaign at Four Lakes and Spokane Plains.

J. Cameron for Nathaniel Currier, Battle of Churubusco (1847). Public domain.
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Engagements
1847 to 1848
Years
2
States

Where these engagements were fought

1 of the 2 could be placed to a location and appear on the map; the remaining 1 are recorded without a precise point. Select a marker to see the engagement.

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Red markers are surveyed battlefields with a mapped boundary; navy markers are point-located engagements. Select a marker to open its page.

Documented engagements

No individually documented engagements are catalogued for Pacific Northwest Indian Wars yet.

By state

Oregon
Mexican War engagements in Oregon
0 ENGAGEMENTS β†’
Washington
Mexican War engagements in Washington
1 ENGAGEMENTS β†’

Engagements and locations are compiled from published sources: Wikipedia (text rewritten and cited as a reference, CC BY-SA 4.0); Wikidata (structured data, CC0).