Mixtón War
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After the conquest of Mesoamerica, the Spaniards sent various expeditions to explore La Gran Chichimeca. In 1529, with a force of 10,500 men, Nuño Beltrán de Guzmán set forth on a march through Nayarit, Jalisco, Durango, Sinaloa and Zacatecas. During his campaign he killed, tortured, and enslaved thousands of natives and provoked a rebellion in order to subdue them. Even though Guzmán was arrested by the colonial authorities, his reign of terror had long-lasting repercussions in the land of the Chichimeca. During in early 1540, the native population later began a fierce rebellion against the Spanish and their native allies from the south. The Spanish eventually regained their advantage and suppressed the revolt by December 1541. The Chichimeca uprisings were not at an end however. In 1550, the Chichimeca War; the first frontier war and the hardest battle ever fought by the Spanish against the natives, began.
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